At 11:04 14/09/99 +0530, you wrote: >Rod Hay wrote: > >> Globalisation is a fact that lefties have to deal with. It is futile to >> oppose it. Chris is pointing in the right direction but he is point at the >> wrong path. Capitalism may have some room for progressive action. There are >> still feudal institutional remnants around the world. But it is not the >> place of leftist to cheer the progress of capitalism. Or to worry about the >> institutional arrangements of international financial regulators. It is the >> place of leftist to champion the rights of workers. To insist that workers >> have their rights inforced, that everyone has enough to eat, that health >> care be available to those who need it, that good free education be >> available, etc., etc., etc. It is this opposition that will build socialism >> not an uncritical promotion of elite institutional reform. World government >> is of interest only because it helps break down national barriers to the >> self-organisation of the working classes of the world. > >______________ > >Rod, Will this world government allow workers from all over the world to move >freely and work where ever they please? Free mobility of the workers of the >world would be first and foremost opposed by the workers of the 1st world. >Cheers, ajit sinha This not so little problem is indeed a consequence of Rod Hay's strictly economist approach to world financial institutions. Chris Burford London
