anti-globalization label

[Peter K.]

>We neoliberals at least have broad agreement that developing-country
>governments are corrupt, by and large (East Asia excepted) lack the
>competence to run successful developmental states, and hence the best
>chance is to try to shrink them to keep them out of the way of
>economic development for a generation or so. We have broad agreement
>that maximizing economic contact--trade, investment, et cetera--is
>our best chance for accelerating technology transfer to poor
>economies and hence putting ourselves on the road to what may for the
>first time in history become a truly human world.
>
>You can't even agree whether the big problem is that the U.S.
>Congress does not exercise enough or exercises too little dominion
>over India...
>
>
>Brad DeLong

Here's Michael Hardt's analysis of Porto Alegre:

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24806.shtml

which puts it in a global context.
The trick would be to make it so that the Indians and
American workers and environmentalists all wouldn't be
working against each other in a zero-sum game.
To do this you'd have to soak the fat boys (or rather the
"stupid" white men)

Peter