At 10:12 AM 2/10/98 -0500, Ed Weick wrote:
>>There is no
>>question but that this change favors capital over the individual as both
>>worker and consumer and, moreover, takes away much of the power of the
>>nation-state as intervener.
There is question. A quarter century ago capital was scared s-less and this,
more than anything (IMHO) allowed the eventual emergence of a strategically
very successful "capitalist front". It was the unity of a strategic
coalition -- much of it orchestrated at the level of the nation-state and
inter-state organizations (G7, IMF, GATT, WTO) -- not a critical change in
technology that has enabled 'globalization'. This isn't to say that
technology had no role to play in facilitating the change, simply that the
way things have gone is not the result of some inherent property of the
technology.
Coalitions are by definition temporary and unstable.
Regards,
Tom Walker
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