[lbo-talk] Identity wars, was fartback

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jul 18 10:42:46 PDT 2005


Chuck Grimes wrote:


>To a certain extent this is a distinction without much of a
>difference. The current US-Euro imperialism via globalization of the
>corporatized and western secular life is a concommittent to the
>material and concrete processes of exploitation in foriegn lowest cost
>labor markets. The social consequence of these economic processes must
>be fairly destructive of the fragile societies they impact. The
>fragility (and hence cheap labor) comes from the evident poverty and
>loss of social cohesion that was already at work from prior
>westernized impacts (some long list of dower historical events).

But if the causes of terrorism were poverty and globalization, why aren't Africans, Latin Americans, and East Asians the major perps? Why is it fairly educated people from Saudi Arabia and Leeds?

Doug



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