The true politico-economic nature of Globalism
What is evident is that globalization is not at the vanguard of of democratization. Indeed, it cannot be because no one controls the unbounded market and therefore no one is accountable to it, whereas democracy’s requirements for checks and balances demands means whereby a public governance can be made. Globalization is transforming democracy, undermining what makes democracy flourish – a vigorous civil society. As mentioned in the last chapter, one of the key characteristics of the postdemocratic condition is the increasing government of state policy by economic matters. Does, then, the correlation between aggressive democratic states and aggressive multinational corporations come about because of copycat managerial strategies or because, where power is increasingly understood in terms of economic and military strength, negotiations have to be made between international leaders of commerce and key national governments implicated in empire?
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DWade –
Good to see you back … with another excerpt.
I’m gonna hafta start calling you ‘The Excerptor’ and put you right up there with the Philosopher and the Commentator….
Still, a fine choice to excerpt. Made me ponder the various ways in which power is understood today, and how these almost per se clash with the mode of power revealed in Christ. Beauty as power – now THERE is a reality worth contemplating….
Yeah, the excerpts are too easy to pass up, especially with so much work going into book reviews, an article, and the diss proposal right. I hope you can excuse my lack of original contribution :)
As for your comment: see my next excerpt.