Marx's insight of a century-and-a-half ago was not only highly prescient, but is far truer today than in Marx's day. - George Ritzer

In the end, the key point is that in gaining a better understanding of these processes, we gain a more nuanced and sophisticated sense of the fundamental nature of globalization.

It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.

It is also often argued that neo-liberalism, especially neo-liberal economics, helps those in the advantaged categories and hurts, often badly, those in the disadvantaged categories.