Friday, February 21, 2014

Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives

Click here to access article by Dominic Alexander from CounterFire (Britain).

I'm only posting this as an illustration of a popular trend often seen on websites: the posing of anti-capitalist critiques confined to its current stage of neoliberalism. The hidden underlying assumption is the dictum that there is really no alternative to capitalism, but criticizing neoliberalism is okay. Capitalist authorities have little problem with such critiques.

Such critiques serve an important function of diverting attention away from the system itself by focusing only on its latest stage of globalized development. Capitalist authorities are perfectly aware that efforts to return to a nationalistic stage of capitalism will be futile, thus they have little problem with such critics who are regarded little more than a minor nuisance that get in their way from time to time.