How about Democratic Internationaists, as that would seem to sum up the basic thrust against bourgeois globalisation ("let us do what we want").
In fact the more I think about it the more I think it says, one could say that proletarian socialism is implied by the concept. Perhaps International Democracy movement fits well (InterDem in my more comitern moments), International Democractic forces sounds good as well.
This may sound excessively silly but if you look at the naming conventions of the history of the socialist movement, names have played an important role in defining new types of political activity and aspirations. As a communist, I see the history of communists parties as a distancing from social-democracy not as a final destination.
In these days when social-democracy has effectively disappeared off the map, I think communists have to ask themselves what role they should play in a future political movement. Should we be an independant entity, or a stand within a wider party of the working class. My feelings, based on diverse reasonings, is that the latter more accords with the conceptualisation of communist within the Communist Manifesto is ripe to be turned into an organisational force. That old style imperialism which supported the sought of reformism which made separate communist parties a necessity, no longer holds.
The role of communist party type organisation had its place in history, but history has shifted. Perhaps Democratic Internationalism suggests something of both the political, organisational and agitational direction we should be adopting. This of course implies a much wider application then you first suggested, something well beyond the antogonism of bourgeois globalisation and "ant-globalisation".
I must admit yet another reason for wanting an out from past history, an idenification with some aspect of the past which also separates us from the past. I want us to be able to distance ourselves from the sects and utopians who have made communism their banner.
Lance I would be interested on anyone's musings on these points. Despite the ahistorical mindset of sects, political formation must respond to general historical change, the socialisation of capital on a world scale, the competition between workers in different states ad regions of the world, the revolution in the means of communication all support the need for a renewed movement, for a unique expression of working class insterests as a historically determined political movement which articulates its interests on the scale of its class deminisions (deminisions which now far over-reach the confines of national states and yet still confront the class with states).
Something like International Democracy has a certain ring to it - are there any other suggestions.
Greg
--- Message Received --- From: MurdochLance at netscape.net (Lance Murdoch) To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 20:14:31 -0400 Subject: anti-globalization label
I'm tired of the corporate-owned media calling people opposed to corporate globalization, anti-globalization. They might as well call us flat earthers. Has this been discussed in some leftie thing that I missed? The abortion people have good PR terms - pro-life and pro-choice. Why have we let them get away with appropriating the globalization label and saying we're opposed to it?
I think the term pro-internationalism is good. Or internationalist. It has a long left association - from the song of the Paris Commune, to within the names of modern socialist, communist and anarchist groups/unions/magazines.
Has this been discussed already? Has Chiat-Day gotten the payment to figure this out for us yet?
Lance Murdoch pro-internationalizationist
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