Satam Choudhury
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

I used to believe that these idle, intellectual skirmishes between right and left on the topic of globalisation would go on forever and that the idea globalisation was, if at all nothing else, controversial. After Brexit, when card-holding communists, their hypocritical bedfellows who euphemistically call themselves ‘liberals’ and self-avowed center-of-right converts, who are actually nostalgic Marxists, became some of the staunchest proponents of ONE MARKET only to spite the rabid Nigel Farage and his courtiers, rambling Boris Johnson, the smart aleck, Michael Gove, I understood that globalisation was indeed a fact of life.

Many of us continue to believe in the-sheep-in-a-wolf’s-clothing stereotype of a communist. If all our comrades were Prakash Karat, this would have been a happy world where EPW polemics would only make for diverting Sunday reading rather than the refrain of angry “Feel the Bern” movements. But mind you, these are dangerous times. The Sandersian wolf-in-a-sheep’s-clothing and the Corbynite wolf-in-a-wolf’s-clothing are the current Marxist prototypes. If elected, they would introduce limited social reforms, limited nationalization, if at all any, and total protectionism at home but preach globalisation to the rest of world. And if Corbyn is elected, God forbid it, for a succession of terms, in a few years time, George Bush Jr. would be hailed as the statesman of the 21st century and the then state of world economy precipitated by unilateral holy crusades forced by ISIS and other radicals upon clueless pacifists and reluctant defenders of world order like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders would make Donald Rumsfeld seem almost like a prophet of yore.

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