A few words on globalization

By John Cheeran
Communists and Islamists are two groups who oppose globalization vigorously in India. In Marxist-dominated states such as Kerala and West Bengal comrades have successfully convinced the common folks that globalization is worse than going to PAKISTAN.
Though Kerala stake claim to be 100 per cent literate, they deserve our sympathy for not knowing. What is true of Kerala is true of whole India, at least in this case.
Communists and Islamists oppose globalization since it is driven and controlled mainly by the United States of America. Indian Communists unfortunately think that it is George Bush and company who have denied them a ballot revolution in India.
Indian Islamists, like Muslims all over the world, hate the US. For them it is the Great Satan. Some of the Christain priests too are caught up in this trap of anti-globalization in the name of liberation theology.
The so called ideological perspective against globalization is just a veneer.
The rage against globalization is like the rage of the wine against the glass that holds it.
All of us enjoy the benefits of globalization everyday, if not every minute.
It is the seamless process of globalization that shrunk the world. As in the evocative phrase coined by Thomas Friedman, the world is flat.
It is futile to protect and swear by local markets; you need markets everywhere to accept your products (pepper to software solutions) so that you can reap maximum benefits from your efforts.
Marxism, Islam and Christianity and a few other things came to India through a process of globalization only. Only the name came later, the process was very much there in the beginning. Most of the life-saving drugs are researched and made first in West and come to India and rest of the world only thanks to globalization.
The Quixotic mutiny engineered by Marxist leader V.S. Achuthanandan against Coca-Cola and Pepsi is the latest jerk against globalization in Kerala. What a pity to see DYFI and AISF cadres cracking the imperialist bottles during the day.
In the evening, they quench the thirst not by drinking local brew such as toddy and arrack but Indian Made Foreign Liquor. IMFL, what a name we have coined!
China abandoned Communism, Russia and its former colonies have embraced the free market and now it is Cuba the last bastion of anti-globalization.
I have come across an excellent piece on what staying away from globalization has meant for Cuba. T.K. Arun, a former member of Planning commission, Kerala, and a senior editor with Economic Times, has written a no-nonsense account of the Cuban myth for Economic Times.
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