Re: getting written up
Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
—- Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com wrote:
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The bad results - slavery, exploitation of Third World labor, lower wages here and exported jobs - are not due to the intrinsic impulse to trade, but to the bad values of the traders, especially those of American government leaders and corporations.
“Corporate globalism: bad,” he said. “Popular globalism: good.”
I bet they intrepreted your argument wrong here–or at least I hope they did. I higly doubt you’d ever claim that it is simply because of some ‘grumpy old billionares’ not playing nice.
Nope, never said anything like that. I said there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with trade (and no intrinsic virtue in self-reliance, which annoyed some of the parsimonious New Englanders). But I did say “corporate globalism: bad; popular globalism: good” (though I’m not sure what my mental punctuation was at the time).
Doug