Ian Bruma writes: "The soaring market in Algeria? The new world economic order in Sudan? Profit-making in Afghanistan? Ah, if only. There were no doubt many reasons for the suicidal murder spree at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but global capitalism surely comes low on the list. Islam ism flourishes precisely in places that are relatively or even absolutely untouched by IBM or Motorola or even, strange to say, McDonald's. If the new economic order were the problem, why didn't the terrorists come from Bangkok, or Hong Kong?"
Capitalism as a mode of production, however, isn't a collection of multinational corporations like IBM, Motorola, & McDonald's, not even a sum of all the "private sectors." Whether you are unemployed in Long Island, a civil servant in Paris, a young soldier in Sudan, or a refugee from Afghanistan, you sure as hell cannot escape the direct and indirect impacts of global capitalism with its compulsion to M-C-M'. -- Yoshie
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