Self-determination (the race to the bottom)

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Wed Jan 8 06:47:22 PST 2003


Grant Lee wrote:
> It seems to me that in societies which are already close to the "bottom",
> globalisation is more like an "upward drift". Of course this phenomenon is
> usually self-negating: workers realise their bargaining power, wages and
> conditions improve, capital flees and the cycle begins again, somewhere
> else. But in the very long run there are only so many lines of flight...

The Left does find it hard to acknowledge that anything significant can happen in the "The Third World". Cuba, naturally, is an exception !

Ulhas



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