Building the underground computer railroad (Salon) [LWN.net]

Building the underground computer railroad (Salon)

Posted Sep 26, 2002 20:17 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Building the underground computer railroad (Salon) by kendall
Parent article: Building the underground computer railroad (Salon)

Unfortunately many opponents of neoliberalism have fallen for the propaganda and accepted the terms of debate, calling themselves antiglobalists even as they organize across international boundaries. The real question is "globalism on whose terms?".

There's an analogy to the period before the Russian revolution, when a small socialist party split into two factions, the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks (these terms mean "majority party" and "minority party"). By accepting that term for themselves, the Mensheviks guaranteed their own defeat.

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What's in a name?

Posted Oct 10, 2002 17:41 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

When the militarist protectionist capitalists describe
themselves as liberals and proponents of free trade and
their project as "globalisation", I don't think it matters
very much at all whether their opponents in all nations
come together under an umbrella called "anti-globalisation"
or "internationalist".

Many of the more sensible labels -- "socialist",
"democrat", "marxist" -- have been used already by
groups who have nothing whatsoever to do with what
they say they are.