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Globalization of Recolonization
Complex Disaster by and for Financial Capital versus Globalization of
Democratic Participation by and for the Working People
Vratusa, Vera A
International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa (ISA), 2006
The paper argues that the use of the fashionable term globalization in the
meaning of necessary, unavoidable & uniform objective process of
worldwide expansion of a free market resource allocation mechanism &
privatization, obscures the existence of contradictory strategies of
globalization by opposed social actors. The main finding of the paper is
that on the one side of global divide majority shares' package owners of
transnational companies & financial institutions, are attempting to get
out of the accumulation of capital crisis through the violent process of
recolonisation of former colonies & former socialist countries, while
on the other side of the global divide the majority of population in
recolonised countries & increasingly in colonial metropolises
themselves, suffering from growing unemployment, poverty & disease, is
attempting to re-appropriate the control over essential conditions of its
life reproduction through democratic participation in strategic
decision-making & self-governance. The paper concludes on the basis of
the analyses of two cases of recolonisation complex disaster in former
colonies & socialist countries, that in the middle of the actual
proliferation of the use of ecocidal & genocidal weapons of mass
destruction by military machines of the transnational financial oligarchy,
social scientists should not contribute to obfuscation of this critical
struggle of our time. On the result of this struggle depends not only
standard of living & quality of life, but the very existence of mankind.
Descriptors: *Globalization; *Colonization; *Developing Countries;
*Postcommunist Societies; *Capitalism; *Multinational Corporations; *Social
Conflict; *War
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