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David McNally is an activist and the NEH Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston. He was previously a professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and was chair of the university's Department of Political Science for several years. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles and the winner of the 2012 Deutscher Memorial Award and the 2012 Paul Sweezy Award.

He has a long history of involvement with and support for social justice movements and organizations. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Luglio 1953   •   Altri nomi David McNally (professor)
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“Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 61
Contesto: Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists. He argued in fact, that capitalists always seek "to deceive and oppress the public" by conspiring to inflate their prices and profits.

“Social movements will not develop if they refuse to name and define alternative possibilities.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 235

“The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.”

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Conclusion, p. 275
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

“Once capitalist classes learn to live with unions — which they generally do reluctantly, only after efforts to crush them have failed — they then attempt to co-opt organized labour. They do so by courting a "special relationship" with union leaders who, as their organizations become larger and more complex, typically assume the role of full time union functionaries.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 6, Democracy Against Capitalism, p. 208

“Corporate globalization and the economic agreements designed to entrench it have little to do with trade — and all but the most ignorant neo-liberal pundits surely know this too.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 30

“Common wealth is in the process of being transferred from the public domain to the private sector.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 70

“When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 13

“The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 137

“Under NAFTA, in other words, the right of corporations to bring thousands of tons of hazardous waste into local communities overrides the right of residents to protect their health.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 41

“The Greek philosopher Plato may have rejected the idea that "might makes right" some 2,500 years ago, but America and its allies today make it the cornerstone of foreign policy.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 147

“"Free trade" is a policy imposed on the weakest and evaded by the most powerful.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 33

“Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 47

“A society that has moved beyond commodification is one that has embraced the most thoroughgoing radical democracy in all spheres of social life.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 234

“"Free trade" is a slogan used to attack practices designed by competitor economies to protect their own interests.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 33

“The neoliberal utopia of unrestrained capitalism is being created by a war against the poor and the commons. In fact, the "new enclosures" are a sign that the struggles that marked the birth of capitalism are still very much alive.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 69

“At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.”

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Preface, p. 11
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)

“To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 23

“Genuine growth is always dialogical — it requires engagement in a dynamic, developing, and open-ended dialogue.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 231

“In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 86

“Globalization is thus also about global commodification of labour; it is about — global proletarianization — the creation of a world working class for capital to exploit.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 78

“What was it, then, about the development of capitalism that gave rise to modern racial ideology?”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 112

“In many respects, the Second World War was a continuation of the First, a conflict triggered by the mismatch between industrial power and imperial reach.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 150

“Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.”

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Origine: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 52

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