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> an anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal globalization icon It's always interesting to see how different politics can be. In the US, anti-capitalists are usual

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  In the US anti-capitalists are opposed to global economic integration but they are also opposed to nationalism. It's been a consistent error of the left because nationalism sells. This book https://isreview.org/issue/111/revolution-could-have-changed-world-history/index.html https://isreview.org/issue/111/revolution-could-have-changed... points it out as a fatal error of the Germany left post-WWI. If the left in Germany had not rejected nationalism we might be flying the hammer and sickle everywhere! It's one of a long list of own goals in the communist movement starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk
  • car_analogy 4y ago
    > In the US anti-capitalists are opposed to global economic integration but they are also opposed to nationalism. Is it even possible to achieve both those goals at the same time? Globalism is more than mere economic integration, and nations with strong identities and borders can and do trade with each-other just fine. But without nations (or if they are reduced to meaninglessness, e.g. "everyone can be American"), what will oppose globalism? It's like being against umbrellas and also against getting wet in the rain. > It's one of a long list of own goals That's assuming they care more about economic socialism than dissolving nations. Looking at how they spend their political capital, I don't think that assumption holds.