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  • Wait. You think anti-globalization protesters from two decades ago - living in a world radically different from the one we are in today in terms of technology and industry, geopolitics, and the environment (amongst certainly many other important factors) - should some how do a mea culpa for Trump?

    I think if we spent some time looking into it, we'd find that many of the issues being raised as issues during that time were contributory factors to the increase in inequality which has, very likely, been a key factor in the emergence of illiberal political ideologies.

  • Well, I think that 'globalisation' outflanked 'left' positions mainly because for a while it pretended that a pseudo-'Internationale' of 'capitalism' was possible. What's happening now (apart from Putin et al.'s divisive trolling) seems to be that the 'right' seems to be at odds over who should really reap the rewards (and, obviously, the disastrous social consequences). I put some of these terms in '' to signal that I don't think it's that simple.

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