>ah yes, here's what i wrote about nafta all those years ago... mh
>http://www.greens.org/s-r/06/06-13.html
Good piece, so apologies for focusing on something I have a problem with:
>Today, the globalization of capital is creating an international
>working class-albeit, one that is stratified in complex ways and is
>characterized by both an active and a reserve army of labor. The
>development of an international middle-strata for example, has
>helped to make capital more mobile. The lifestyle of this element is
>observable in almost every city in the world-wearing, drinking, and
>driving the same brands as they watch the same movies and listen to
>the same music.
I see this claim a lot, but is it really true? Florence looked very different to me from New York; New York looks very different from Gloucester, Mass.; Manhattan looks very different from Brooklyn. Visiting Sydney in 2001, we heard some Asian-flavored techno like I've never heard in the northern hemisphere. Are things really homogenizing to this degree?
Doug