Future of Our Past

By King Meera -
(tq Niki)

Amartya Sen:
  1. positive & important contributions of anti-globalization BUT divided lines and deprivation are failures of social, economical and political systems, not penalties of globalization
  2. disagrees that globalization is a hegemony of the west since, earlier, globalization involved sharing of information, learning and technology with the west by the East
  3. if you accept that globalization is indeed dominance by the West, you have a narrow-minded outlook on globalization and the ways of the world and are undermining your own scientific and technical prowess
  4. although globalization HAS promoted global capitalism therefore discontentment and violence:
> fairer distribution of resources and promotion of global equity would fix that
> open up global fronts to combat inequalities of class, race and gender, and address environmental issues

SATCHIDANANDAN disagrees:
  1. says that what Amartya Sen says are the merits of globalization are nothing but the characteristics of internationalism
  2. Socialists and democrats, and followers of one-nation theory support internationalism
  3. says globalization is the modern version of imperialism
  4. globalization believes in world hegemony of one country as per Satchidanandan
  5. internationalism asks for coexistence of all 
  6. globalizaton is a monologue of power, delivered through threats, commands and attempts to create artificial consent; also dominating countries use hegemonic machinery to manufacture truths that serve only their interests; also it all boils down to power
  7. internationalism believes in dialogue and exchange on equal terms
  8. globalization = commercial
  9. internationalism = cultural
  10. coca-colonization - export of a lifestyle, mono-acculturization, standardization, homogeneity; called culinary standardization but also applies to spelling and fashion
  11. MaCaulay - fear of differences - colonialism -> globalization
  12. mutual recognition of lifestyles, cultural pluralism, respect for differences, concern for identities -> internationalism
  13. G: centered, controlled, command economy, people have little voice
  14. I: democratic, decentralized, respect people's actual needs as opposed to national needs projected by government with specific class interests
  15. exporting war - creating unstable political situations, fear psychosis - accumulation of arms - at the expense of other nations for their own profit - commercial, capitalist, globalist
  16. imperialists profit by supplying weapons and then undertaking reconstruction
  17. I: peace and amity - prosperity
  18. G: greedy and profit driven - callousness toward environment; export of polluting industries and dangerous drugs to African and Asian countries
  19. I: deeply concerned about material and spiritual ecology, fighting eco-fascism and techno-fascism; emphasis on greening the planet and pollution control
  20. G: preach monolithic pattern of megadevelopment because that worked for them
  21. I: let country choose how it wants to grow
  22. G: inevitably accompanied by epistemic violence, social and historical mutilation of the colonized and their exclusion from history 
there's like a billion points more but until I upload that just contrast globalism and internationalism

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