Self-determination

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Ian:
> go beyond soundbiting. Then again, many in "the South" are 
> beginning to reject the "development" discourse entirely, so 
> "Northern" lefties need to do a lot more listening to the 
> vocabularies and narratives that are being used in other 
> countries. Ulhas probably has tons of suggestions I, for one, 
> would love to hear/read.
> 

Again, if E. Europe is any indicator, the most vocal anti-globalisation
crowd is the arch-reactioanry rural population in alliance with assorted
nationalists.  As I understand, Cambodia (the "killing fields") and
Afghanistan (mujahadeen and later the Taleban) are succesful cases of
rural reaction to modernization.  In most African countries, the working
class (at least in the rural areas)  has almost exclusively the female
gender, and industrialization competes with the subsistence agriculture
for labor.  I think these folks are less concerned about falling mfg
wages in the West than the loss of female labor power and erosion of
traditional patriarchal power that manufacturing brings to their own
countries.  

Wojtek