Toward an International of Resistance Against Capitalist Globalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Löwy (0000-0001-5679-0927, National Center for Scientific Research in Paris), Charlotte C Stanley |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 127-131 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009458202237786 |
| OpenAlex | W4255301838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Contrary to the claims of neoliberal ideologues, capitalist globalization does not contribute in the least to creating a pacific and harmonious new world order-on the contrary, it fosters ethnic-identity panic and tribal nationalism. The false universality of the world market unleashes particularism and hardens xenophobia; the market cosmopolitanism of capital and aggressive nationalist impulses are mutually supportive (see Bensaid, 1997). Thanks to the concept of imperialism, Marxism is able to escape the pitfalls of false Eurocentric-or Western-universalism, which claims to impose on all the world's peoples, notably those on the periphery, the domination of the modem bourgeois/industrial way of life in the guise of civilization: private property, the market economy, unlimited economic expansion, productivism, utilitarianism, possessive individualism, and instrumental rationality. This is not a matter of denying the universal value of certain achievements of European culture after 1789, such as democracy, secularism, and the rights of man. It is simply a matter of rejecting the false dichotomy between socalled Western universalism and the limited cult of cultural differences-or, in the case of European unification, between supranational capitalist/market unity and the nationalist recourse to existing fatherlands. For Marxism the fundamental value of universality is the liberation of human beings from all forms of oppression, domination, alienation, and degradation. This is a utopian universality and not the ideological pseudouniversality that lauds the Western status quo as already embodying the human universal, the end of history, and the realization of the human spirit. Only a critical universality of this type, one that is oriented toward an emancipated
Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Ideology · Individualism · Nationalism · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Universalism · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |