Vineland revisited

[Jane Sweet]

Teufelsdröcke wrote:
> 
> Such treaties as NAFTA, GATT, FTAA protect the free movement of goods
> and capital but continue to prevent the free movement of people. 


I don't think so. People are moving from Mexico and Latin
America to the USA in very large numbers and not much is
preventing this emigration.  Canadians are retiring to the
USA, although their Health Plan requires that citizens spend
a half the year and a day in Canada, which is exactly what
many retired Canadians do. Asians are also emigrating to the
USA in very large number, from China, from Korea, from
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and from Africa and from war
torn states in Europe too. 


In this
> way they are inherently fascist, codifying the continuing availability
> of essentially prison labor in countries already ravaged by capitalist
> predation. 

Is it capitalist predation that has ravaged these nations
and their peoples? 
Can the USA continue to be blamed, can the World Capitalists
take all the responsibility for poverty and slave and prison
labor? I don't think so. There is good and evil isn't there?
Isn't Africa hungry for US technology and food? Isn't it
those Capitalist that have discovered all those wonder drugs
now in use in Africa? 

The very opposite of their claim of bringing "western"
> economic vitality and progress to "developing" nations, it is in fact a
> new kind of colonialism.

If it's new, or a new kind, perhaps colonialism is not the
best term to describe it? 
Perhaps saying that it is a new kind of colonialism
indicates that the horrors of colonialism are diminished as
much as the horrors of the current state of affairs is
inflated by the use of the term colonialism? 



> 
> Indeed, the anti-globalization movement provides some reason for hope,
> because unlike the economic desperation behind the 1930's and the war
> conscription behind the 1960's it is driven by a long-term and
> principled vision of a democratic world.

Well, some of the drivers don't give a damn for democracy,
but most, be they red, pink, anarchists, so on, don't like
capitalism one little bit, but I doubt there is much hope of
defeating that market principle.