• edwardligma [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    right wing opposition to free trade may be nativism, left wing opposition to free trade is 100% anti-imperialism (disclaimer: except for maybe weird patsocs idk, but i dont really count them)

    free trade agreements are one of the major cornerstones of imperial wealth extraction from the global south, and deny them national sovereignty, prevent the development of national industry, are horrible for workers rights, and reduce the ability of countries to remove their dependence on the west

    dont mistake the anti-globalists of the late 90s/early 2000s for the anti-(((globalists))) of today, they have nothing in common except unfortunately the name

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      anti-globalists

      It's literally in the name. No one was an "anti-globalist" twenty years ago. They were anti-globalization. Specifically opposed to finance imperialist. "Globalists" is a coded term for Jews that only entered the discourse a few years ago, but the term somehow got normalized and now everyone is using it, which distorts and disguises it's racist origins.