>>SO, WHAT IS “GLOBALIZATION ALL ABOUT?
Each war starts with a word. It ends with a word, too. Every child knows that “… war is the continuation of
politics by other means…”. Here is a characteristic illustration of the thesis. The “cold war” started with Mr.
Churchill’s speech in Fulton. From the moment America’s and Western countries’ victory in the “cold war,”
another war, the war for the ultimate domination in the world. I call it “the war of words.” It can eliminate
entire armies, state borders, and event entire peoples nearly bloodlessly, with a single shot. The main
weapon of such a war is globalization.
Surely, globalization as a phenomenon, is very manifold and complex. It cannot be properly clarified within
the framework of a single, even if a very spacious, article. We can only try and dwell upon key, fundamental
moments which could help get the idea of this process as a whole.
However strange it may seem, first ideas of globalization were born not in late 19th century, not in America or Western Europe. The first globalist, as it were, was... Jesus Christ. It is He Who proclaimed it more that 2,000 years ago that the humankind was to be united not by belonging to a certain race, nation, or country, but by the supreme idea of the common equality and brotherhood. Our Saviour was most likely to mean that it was our heavenly Father Who got the supreme power over us, and not a world government, and even not a pope.
In Middle Ages, the idea of globalization “after Christ” was translated and inculcated by those in power even
more one-sidedly and more primitively.
Propagating their faith, that is, their ideology, the clergymen tried to destroy dissidence utterly. Secular
authorities, generally speaking, followed suit. As a result, there were no end of wars in Europe. Over 2
millenniums A. C., periods of peace did not exceed two decades.
The situation changed with the emergence of supernational, socialist ideas with their founders, such as
Sen-Simon, Fourier, and, then Marx, Engels, Lenin. They chose proletariat as the force uniting the world.
Nowadays, globalists have taken the place of international socialists. In any case, it is only ideological cover
is changes. The essence stays the same – the superanational, superstate power of a cosmopolitan minority.
So, globalists and communists have more in common than it might seem at first sight, because their
similarity stems from the common goal. For example, either party is convinced that the world can be ruled
with the help of commissars or special agents. And, if you want to seize some territory, you will have to
develop and inculcate the ideological cover of this undertaking. It is exactly for that purpose that newspapers
and television networks are captured – the same way as earlier it were railway stations, post and telegraph
offices to be captured first.
Each subsequent “globalization” claims to make the world a better place, but their well-wishing slogans
have always remained on paper only.
In reality globalization exacerbates property stratification of the society. A mass democratic society,
especially in the countries of the former socialist camp, is more and more increasingly melting away. Even if
you take a bastion of globalization, the USA, you can see that the salary of qualified workers has dropped
there nearly by 10% over the last decade. The market of mass goods and services is shrinking, while the
elite market of luxury goods is booming.
Globalization leads to a decrease in the living standards of the average American, Russian, German. The
transnational capital loses any signs of patriotism. Transnationals open their business wherever they like,
so that the workforce and raw materials would be cheaper. In the meantime, qualified American are facing
losing their jobs.
So called “new Russians” are exporting and will be exporting from Russia all they have managed to “earn,”
while the West would like to see Russia to be a raw-material appendage to its developed economy. Russia
has to maintain the level of oil and gas production needed for the West. For June-July this year, a 15-percent
price decrease for crude oil took place. That is to say, the Russian oil “lost flesh” by 20%. This fact may
become the beginning of the end of the “economic miracle” allegedly seen under Russia’s new president.
Unfortunately, the Russian state budget is still not based on the rebirth of its own production, but only on oil
and gas export price rises. If the Russian government continues to blindly follow the pro-Western course,
this will only result in self-demolition: the policy of globalization will never let Russia rise from its knees.<<
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