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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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" makes sense against the power of the new global economy"?
" makes sense against the power of the new global economy" sounds as if the power of the new global economy" is negative or very bad.
Isn't United States always supporting the power of the new global economy?
Context:
JOHN COMAROFF: It’s obviously extremely sad. He was a genuine hero who, during the bad old days, stood, inspirationally, for the ethical core of the ANC and the anti-apartheid struggle; indeed, for the best face of a political age that we’ve seen disappear across the world.
His death does not just mark the demise of the ANC as a revolutionary movement with admirable values and ends. It also marks the end of an epoch in world history in which it was possible still to hope realistically for democracies that were truly participatory, for politics that were not alienating, politics that pursued the idea of a common weal. Even if it wasn’t always achieved, it was an aspirational ideal to which we could all commit.
His passing presents a challenge: a challenge to think about how to construct a meaningful, unalienated, democratic politics that still makes sense against the power of the new global economy, a politics that might yield an effective response to problems of inequality, of joblessness, and of racism; in short, to precisely the evils against which Mandela stood so firmly.
Isn't United States always supporting the power of the new global economy?
Context:
JOHN COMAROFF: It’s obviously extremely sad. He was a genuine hero who, during the bad old days, stood, inspirationally, for the ethical core of the ANC and the anti-apartheid struggle; indeed, for the best face of a political age that we’ve seen disappear across the world.
His death does not just mark the demise of the ANC as a revolutionary movement with admirable values and ends. It also marks the end of an epoch in world history in which it was possible still to hope realistically for democracies that were truly participatory, for politics that were not alienating, politics that pursued the idea of a common weal. Even if it wasn’t always achieved, it was an aspirational ideal to which we could all commit.
His passing presents a challenge: a challenge to think about how to construct a meaningful, unalienated, democratic politics that still makes sense against the power of the new global economy, a politics that might yield an effective response to problems of inequality, of joblessness, and of racism; in short, to precisely the evils against which Mandela stood so firmly.
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NL888 makes sense against the power of the new global economy" sounds as if the power of the new global economy" is negative or very bad. I think that the speaker thinks it is a bad thing. It is a common idea among people with left-wing views that "big business", multi-national corporations, etc.
- NL888 makes sense against the power of the new global economy" sounds as if the power of the new global economy" is negative or very bad.
- I think that the speaker thinks it is a bad thing.
- It is a common idea among people with left-wing views that "big business", multi-national corporations, etc.
- are bad.
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NL888makes sense against the power of the new global economy" sounds as if the power of the new global economy" is negative or very bad.I think that the speaker thinks it is a bad thing. It is a common idea among people with left-wing views that "big business", multi-national corporations, etc. are bad.
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