>There are very few progressive narrative that see new technology and
>globalization as an opportunity rather than a threat (e.g. Paul Hawken
>et al., _Natural Capitalism_). Most of what see on this list is
>globalization bashing in the utopian socialism style.
Not from me, comrade. One of my favorite passages from H&N's Empire (p. 43):
>[W]e insist on asserting that the construction of Empire is a step
>forward in order to do away with any nostalgia for the power
>structures that preceded it and refuse any political strategy that
>involves returning to that old arrangement, such as trying to
>resurrect the nation-state to protect against global capital. We
>claim that Empire is better in the same way that Marx insists that
>capitalism is better than the forms of society and modes of
>production that came before it. Marx's view is grounded on a healthy
>and lucid disgust for the parochial and rigid hierarchies that
>preceded capitalist society as well as on a recognition that the
>potential for liberation is increased in the new situation.