[LEMONS] 7.06.2001
Ted Rall has a good essay on the pros of globalization in Motherjones.com. Rall asks: "The question is whether lefties can pick and choose. Can we keep the positive socializing influence of globalization while taming the unfettered capitalism that currently goes with it? Or, conversely, could we withdraw from and discourage free trade agreements while keeping the world on our backs about state-sanctioned murder of the mentally handicapped?" To me this is a vital question in that the American radical movement is opposing the wrong thing: globalization rather than the "unfettered capitalism that currently goes with it," as Rall says. They are two intrinsically different things. Globalization is, in my opinion, a good thing. Nations are antiquated, quaint. Every time I hear someone yapping about how the US is the world's lone superpower, I think "yes, and as such we ought to use our power to eliminate our sovereignty." We ought to be working towards No More Nations. Use the American model for the rest of the world, if you want (just don’t put Republican appointees in the court system if you want to hang onto democracy). Just get rid of nations. Globalization is good. It will help stop war, famine and disease. Opposing it out of habit is just idiotic.
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