ABSTRACT
The open secret of the Global Justice Movement is that its target is not globalisation as such. The objective of the movement is to expose and resist an attempt to replace the world’s multiple, diverse and essentially imperfect experiments in democratic freedom and human development with the tyranny of a ‘common future’—where the exercise of all choices is reduced to exclusive acts of consumption and production, and where the ultimate product is a human being ‘hardwired’ to pursue his or her consuming passions in a life reduced to a prolonged act of grazing. Someone in the movement once asked: ‘What does it mean when a whole culture dreams the same dream?’ The movement’s response: ‘Let’s not wait to find out.’
