ABSTRACT
The danger of the rhetoric of globalization is that it reduces the scope of democratic political life to marginal adjustments in the management of market institutions. It thereby closes the political process to questions about the contribution made by market institutions to the satisfaction of human needs…[An effective opposition] must question this model and expose the desolation wrought on communities by policies that have no justification apart from the spurious claim that they are forced on us by an inexorable historical process. In doing so it will assume a responsibility relinquished by contemporary Conservatism—that of ensuring through political action that the workings of market institutions are compatible with the satisfaction of the human need for a life in common.
