ABSTRACT
The politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen believe that the Seattle demonstrations are only a "disturbance" because environmentalists, trade-unionists, and protectionists are too diverse to form a coherent opposition to globalization in their respective countries. Two generations ago, it was the Bolsheviks who proposed a single Leninist model for all industrialized countries, from Japan to Belgium. The new Bolsheviks are the advocates of "turbo-capitalism", who believe that all economies should be opened to all forms of competition by privatizing everything, abolishing all economic regulations, and removing all barriers to international commerce. The large question that globalization specifically raises, is nothing less than the relationship between culture and commerce. To stop European subsidies for wheat production would not only help the wheat farmers of Argentina, Australia, India, and the United States but would also stop the destruction of the environment in northern France and elsewhere in Europe.
