Laura Slot revisits the 2004 essay on the widening rift between American elites and the rest of the country’s citizenry. Twenty years later, it shows how globalization became ridden with betrayal. Harvard professor and political scientist Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) predicted many events correctly. His essay ‘
Commerce has no home. The commercial interest in America, which go back to Christopher Columbus, are brutal, ruthless, and placeless. The globalist, capitalist, communist, do not care about place or people of a place. They have no loyalty to any place. this is an ancient characterizationof the commercial system. Commerce is to be contrasted with barter and trade.
Good old Huntington, nice that someone refers to him in this day and age. However, Huntington never struck me as particularly innovative, clairvoyant, and intellectually challenging. Actually, he describes a phenomenon that is quite familiar to our Marxist colleagues: capitalists have no true fatherland and only identify with a particular nation if it suits their bank account. But then again, as a quintessential American, Huntington also liked re-inventing the wheel.
Commerce has no home. The commercial interest in America, which go back to Christopher Columbus, are brutal, ruthless, and placeless. The globalist, capitalist, communist, do not care about place or people of a place. They have no loyalty to any place. this is an ancient characterizationof the commercial system. Commerce is to be contrasted with barter and trade.
Good old Huntington, nice that someone refers to him in this day and age. However, Huntington never struck me as particularly innovative, clairvoyant, and intellectually challenging. Actually, he describes a phenomenon that is quite familiar to our Marxist colleagues: capitalists have no true fatherland and only identify with a particular nation if it suits their bank account. But then again, as a quintessential American, Huntington also liked re-inventing the wheel.
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