David McNally Quotes

Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.

In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.

What was it, then, about the development of capitalism that gave rise to modern racial ideology?

A society that has moved beyond commodification is one that has embraced the most thoroughgoing radical democracy in all spheres of social life.

Genuine growth is always dialogical — it requires engagement in a dynamic, developing, and open-ended dialogue.

Under , in other words, the right of corporations to bring thousands of tons of hazardous waste into local communities overrides the right of residents to protect their health.

Once capitalist classes learn to live with unions — which they generally do reluctantly, only after efforts to crush them have failed — they then attempt to co-opt organized labour. They do so by courting a "special relationship" with union leaders who, as their organizations become larger and more complex, typically assume the role of full time union functionaries.

Social movements will not develop if they refuse to name and define alternative possibilities.

Globalization is thus also about global commodification of labour; it is about — global proletarianization — the creation of a world working class for capital to exploit.

The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.

The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.

"Free trade" is a slogan used to attack practices designed by competitor economies to protect their own interests.

The Greek philosopher Plato may have rejected the idea that "might makes right" some 2,500 years ago, but America and its allies today make it the cornerstone of foreign policy.

When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.

"Free trade" is a policy imposed on the weakest and evaded by the most powerful.