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In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
"Free trade" is a slogan used to attack practices designed by competitor economies to protect their own interests.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Genuine growth is always dialogical — it requires engagement in a dynamic, developing, and open-ended dialogue.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
A society that has moved beyond commodification is one that has embraced the most thoroughgoing radical democracy in all spheres of social life.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
"Free trade" is a policy imposed on the weakest and evaded by the most powerful.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Common wealth is in the process of being transferred from the public domain to the private sector.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Social movements will not develop if they refuse to name and define alternative possibilities.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists. He argued in fact, that capitalists always seek "to deceive and oppress the public" by conspiring to inflate their prices and profits.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
In many respects, the Second World War was a continuation of the First, a conflict triggered by the mismatch between industrial power and imperial reach.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
What was it, then, about the development of capitalism that gave rise to modern racial ideology?
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Corporate globalization and the economic agreements designed to entrench it have little to do with trade — and all but the most ignorant neo-liberal pundits surely know this too.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Under NAFTA, in other words, the right of corporations to bring thousands of tons of hazardous waste into local communities overrides the right of residents to protect their health.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Globalization is thus also about global commodification of labour; it is about — global proletarianization — the creation of a world working class for capital to exploit.
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)