Globalisation and Cannibalism

Sorry if you were expecting a serious political essay here. I just wanted to share a nice example of syntactic ambiguity from a paper on globalisation I'm grading: "People start to consume lots of things like American people."

I'm reminded of a slogan that was popular in 1980s Britain: "Eat the rich!"

Anti-Globalism and Reaction

I had a go at answering the exam question I'm grading, which is based on Ayesha Chaudhry's "The New Face of Imperialism" (which unfortunately seems to have vanished off the web). I've uploaded it here in case anyone's interested. Here's a teaser:

The movement described as "anti-capitalism" or "anti-globalism" is both encouraging and disappointing. It is encouraging because it shows that there are still alternatives to the prevailing view that capitalism is triumphant (and rightly so), and disappointing because it offers nothing to replace the defunct opposition of the marxist left. At its best, it is a popular moral reponse to the injustices of global capitalism; at its worst, it is incoherent and even downright reactionary.