I found this such a compelling analysis of our time, that I had to post it on the pumphandle.
Nationalism is a wedge to divide people from organizing in the way that multi-national, pan-national and non-national corporations organize. People have been divided-and-conquered by sex, race, creed, religion, age, and — of course — nation.
It’s clear that the large Fortune-100’s have no use for nationalism. One need look no further than their outsourcing, basing themselves in tax-free havens, registering ships to Liberia, obtaining Swiss Bank accounts, basing in the Caymans, Dubai, etc. Our top politically-connected corporations do this. In a nutshell, we have another case of socialism for the wealthy, capitalism for the poor.
Global freedom for the wealthy, nationalism for the poor.
The modern nation-state has become little more than an overgrown plantation or fiefdom. The lord of the manor may come and go at will, but the laborers are bound to it. IT’s perfectly fine for IBM to move to India, Ford to move to China, or Goodyear to move to Mexico and employ foreign labor. But it’s verboten for the world’s laborers to freely relocate themselves.
As a result, “nationalism” is very difficult to define. In practice, nations are little more than economic cartels for the powerful to exploit at the cost of the world’s working population.
Nationalism is a wedge to divide people from organizing in the way that multi-national, pan-national and non-national corporations organize. People have been divided-and-conquered by sex, race, creed, religion, age, and — of course — nation.
It’s clear that the large Fortune-100’s have no use for nationalism. One need look no further than their outsourcing, basing themselves in tax-free havens, registering ships to Liberia, obtaining Swiss Bank accounts, basing in the Caymans, Dubai, etc. Our top politically-connected corporations do this. In a nutshell, we have another case of socialism for the wealthy, capitalism for the poor.
Global freedom for the wealthy, nationalism for the poor.
The modern nation-state has become little more than an overgrown plantation or fiefdom. The lord of the manor may come and go at will, but the laborers are bound to it. IT’s perfectly fine for IBM to move to India, Ford to move to China, or Goodyear to move to Mexico and employ foreign labor. But it’s verboten for the world’s laborers to freely relocate themselves.
As a result, “nationalism” is very difficult to define. In practice, nations are little more than economic cartels for the powerful to exploit at the cost of the world’s working population.
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