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• Globalisation

  przez Morpheus
  I. What is Globalisation?
  Globalisation has become a bête noire for all sorts of
  people--activists and academics, reformists and revolutionaries.
  At a time when nationalism is resurgent, we see an
  internationalisation of struggle. And yet... confusion
  reigns--confusion over our objectives, our ideals, our methods
  and goals. A confusion that could be fatal--if we miss our chance
  when it is presented to us we might not get another one. We are
  living in critical times. Therefore in the following pages we
  examine the background to globalisation, the struggle against it
  and some of the confusions and misunderstandings that surround
  it.
  The current trend for opposing globalisation appears to have
  fallen for an inverted version of the same illusion that those in
  favour of it suffer from--that what is occurring (and has been
  for approximately the last 20 years) is something new and
  radically different to what has gone before. The things that are
  identified as constituting globalisation--free trade, the free
  movement of capital, the growth of international regulatory
  bodies and institutions, the expansion of multinationals and the
  creation of one global 'culture'-- are new in the sense that they
  are new forms of organisation and structure but in essence they
  are a continuation of what has gone before.
  Capital has always been global. The capitalist system is the most
  adaptable and voracious in history. From its beginning it has
  been driven by the need to constantly expand or die; the changes
  that have occurred in recent years are an expression of this
  need. Globalisation is 'worse' in the sense that it represents an
  attempt at extending and intensifying capital's grip on humanity,
  but it is not worse, as some seem to imply, in opposition to a
  mythical idealised past when capitalism was nice and local and
  the state intervened to protect us against the markets. The logic
  is the same now as it always been--to exploit people and nature
  to the maximum extent possible. The fact that in some previous
  eras this exploitation may have taken place in a way that was
  softer or more 'democratic' doesn't change its essential nature.
  In order to understand the process that has become known as
  globalisation, it is essential to understand the trajectory taken
  by post-war capitalism. Looked at in this context, globalisation
  can be seen not as a separate phenomenon but rather as the effect
  of the crisis caused by the resurgence of European and American
  class struggle in the late 1960s and the 1970s.
  
  II. 1945--1968: Restructuring, Integration and Growth
  
  In 1945, with the virtual sole exception of America, the
  industrialised and 'developed' world was in a state of massive
  economic and physical disarray--a condition mirrored in its
  working class. In this period the world began to be divided
  between the American and Soviet versions of capitalism.1 Stalin's
  Red Army proceeded to subjugate Eastern Europe to a variant of
  capitalism involving most of its worst aspects and bringing few
  of the fringe benefits that help to make life a bit more bearable
  in 'advanced' capitalist society.
  Meanwhile, America adopted Western Europe as its sphere of
  influence. This developed into the 'cold war', an era of frosty
  relations and supposed ideological struggle between the two
  superpowers.2 Each vied to collect as many 'satellite' nations
  and regions as possible to serve as new markets for the domestic
  economy and through which proxy wars could be fought. This was a
  de facto new form of colonisation which was preferable for
  powerful nations because it largely avoided the hassle of
  actually administering territory. Those countries whose
  populations proved resistant or had unsympathetic regimes were
  forcibly brought into the fold through engineered and assisted
  coups or were simply invaded (e.g. Brasil, Hungary,
  Czechoslovakia, South Vietnam, Chile, Afghanistan etc. etc.) The
  decline of the old colonial powers o
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• Join TFE great for teens who want to do their bit to save our planet!

  przez Kera O'Regan
  Join teens for the environment's bebo page!
  we finally have bebo! =]
  or visit our website www.tfeorg.webs.com
  
  thanks!
  -tfe
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• nice site helping the third sector too

  przez Catherine Weadick
  hi everyone, you might like to check out ammado too, it's a nice new site but hasn't launched yet and is invitation only at www.ammado.com/invite. You should invite all your favourite nonprofits to ammado by sending them the link www.ammado.com/invite
  
  I think it's cool.
  
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