Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:14:00 -0800 (PST) From: commie zero zero <commie00-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: empire & globalization, was... Re: AUT: Re: autonomist crisis theory > For a long time though I've felt that the > struggle AGAINST globalisation per se is somewhat > misconceived. It smacks too much of nationalism or > Amin's delinking or the national democratic > revolution or something. this is true. but only for sectors of the "movement"... but is it any surprise, given the counter-revolutionary nature of nationalism, etc. that it is the stuff that is portrayed in the media, for the most part? the stuff that is easier to hear about... i would venture to say that the majority of people participating in the anti-globalization stuff (certainly the majority of people i have talked to and interviewed) are more sympathetic to revolutionary possibilities than to nationalism, etc. they have just mosly been sold on using voting and such to "expand the floor of the cage", or whatever... and don't realize how this is counter to their goals. > However, one can't be FOR > globalisation! i can't help but be kinda for it... but only in as much as it opens up the possibility of stronger international links for us (er... us meaing the working class). ====commie00 --------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/commie00 --------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices! http://auctions.yahoo.com/ --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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