Friday, September 05, 2008
New Barbarism
Globalization really is too tame a word to use for mass murder in the pursuit of power and profit. The colonialism that preceded globalization used similar methodology in subduing the indigenous owners of natural resources, but today's genocides and other crimes against humanity need a more precise term to describe this modern globalized aggression. Perhaps "neocolonialism" will have to do for now, but in time I would think something more descriptive of armed robbery by militaries and mercenaries might be useful.
The aristocracies that now surmount borders and laws in committing these crimes like to call themselves the free market, but those enslaved, robbed or murdered by their proxies might prefer to be market free.
Maybe new barbarism would suffice.
The aristocracies that now surmount borders and laws in committing these crimes like to call themselves the free market, but those enslaved, robbed or murdered by their proxies might prefer to be market free.
Maybe new barbarism would suffice.
