THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND GLOBALIZATION
In: Socialism and democracy: the bulletin of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, Band 12, Heft 1-2, S. 213-219
ISSN: 0885-4300
RE-READING THE "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO" IT IS HARD NOT TO BE STRUCK BY THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE ATTITUDE OF ITS AUTHORS TO THE CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION OF THEIR DAY AND THE GLOOM OF TODAY. THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE APPARENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AUTHORS OF THE "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO" AND THE VERY MANY PEOPLE ON THE LEFT WHO ARE SO PESSIMISTIC ABOUT GLOBALIZATION TODAY. IT EXAMINES WHO WAS RIGHT AND WHO WAS WRONG.