Global dominance / global resistance

Abstract

Globalisation has become a buzzword that is being used by everyone - from politicians to priests, from sociologists to speculators, from economists to environmentalists and from revolutionaries to reactionaries. So many different interpretations are given to this word that perhaps it is losing its meaning. However, one would be naïve if one were to ignore the fact that globalisation - whatever one thinks of it - is indeed a social reality. In this essay I shall analyse the validity of the globalisation thesis put forward by Karl Marx and Fredreich Engels in the Communist Manifesto which they presented in 1848. I shall argue that much of the economic changes which they predicted are have taken place or are taking place in the contemporary world. I shall also amplify the argument that globalisation includes other aspects - such as the environmental and the political - which should be taken into account in a multidimensional analysis of the theme. Indeed, I shall argue that the political aspect can be, and indeed is, a powerful tool that can oppose the capitalist global dominance of the world. Green Politics shall be used as an example of political globalisation that is resisting environmental destruction and social injustices resulting from global capitalist dominance.