anti-globalization label

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Wed Apr 10 08:43:28 PDT 2002


Lance Murdoch wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Has this been discussed already? Has Chiat-Day gotten the payment to figure this out for us yet?
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> Lance Murdoch
> pro-internationalizationist

I see no reason to shy away from using this term. There have been a variety of attempts within the movements to redefine our label. I belong to the more radical tendency, the "anti-capitalist" movement. The moderates and liberals either call themselves the anti-corporate globalization movement, or the "global justice" movement, or "another world is possible."

I'm a strong supporter of using the phrase anti-globalization, because it describes a critique of an economic process. Globalization is an economic process that is different than "internationalism." I don't see why we should pander to idiots who can't understand the difference between internationalism and globalization (like Jon Katz at Slashdot).

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