Chuck0 writes:
> Michael Dolan and Lori Wallach hardly qualify as the anti-globalization
> movement. I'm pretty involved in this movement and haven't anything
> in the way of anti-semitisim or right wing ideas. **********
Mike and Lori are east coast liberal internationalists. They are extremely capable organizers yet have Napoleanic and know-it-all-smarty-pants proclivities that can seriously rub other organizers the wrong way. Not an anti-semitic bone in their bodies.
Though I think Chip has legitimate concerns, mainly with the Naderites, I
have to say I've run into more Neo-Malthusians than right-wingers. This
may be anecdotal, but with local Greens and "anti-globalization"
activists there have been some rather chilling overpopulation fanatics.
I'm still getting spammed for questioning one "close the borders, save
the planet" crank. Am I completely wrong to be using Amartya Sen
<http://mthwww.uwc.edu/wwwmahes/courses/geog/malthus/sen_NYR.htm>
in trying to make sense of all this?
-- Shane
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Good choice. Also, look at Asoka Bandarage' "Women, Population and Global Crisis", a withering assault on neo-Malthusianism; ain't much capability for the other side when she's done.
We have to be adamant about refusing to let the argument get pitched as global/anti-global; it's democracy versus oligarchy, need versus greed and solidarity against imperialism, racism, sexism. If we can stick to those sound bite issues we'll be much better off in the long run-hell we might even "win".
Ian