Anti-Semitism and Anti-Globalization

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Mon Mar 19 07:37:05 PST 2001


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

*********

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



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