implications of Bond's typology

Patrick Bond has an interesting typology about "the five reactions to the
global crisis" in his recent JWSR article (JWSR. vol. 5, no. 2 (1999), p.
336, Table 1) [copy of the table attached. I hope this is not in breach of
copy right. Please advise.]

In view of this typology, one could argue that a single world party (only
one) is not enough, since the spectrum of opinions is extremely wide.
Instead, one may have to think of several world parties along the left-right
continuum, give them distinct names, and then debate each of them
separately. What do you think?

Also, it might be useful to think of a world party as having highly
autonomous regional "chapters", which could serve as a safeguard, so that
the lefties of the Second and Third Worlds would not get bossed around by
the lefties of the First World, who would likely have more money and more
computers.

Gert Kohler
Oakville, Canada

Title: WPWSN

Source:

Journal of World-Systems Research
Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 1999)

Table 1: Five Reactions to the Global Crisis
 
 
 

Tendency:> Issue:Old World Order
Main argument	Resist globalisation of capital (in contrast to globalisation of people), so as to one day establish popular democracy	Join the system, but on much fairer terms	Reform "imperfect markets" + more "development"	Slightly adjust the status quo (transparency, supervision & regulation)	Restore US hegemony--and penalise NY bankers' mistakes
Key institutions	global activist networks; regional coalitions; think tanks; academic sites; key social/labour movements (Jubilee 2000, Third World Network, Mexico's Zapatistas, Brazil's Movement of the Landless and Workers' Party, South Africa's Cosatu and other civil society groups, India's people's movement coalitions, South Korean workers, Burkina Faso's National Federation of Peasant Organisations, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, etc)	Key nation-states (Malaysia, China, India, South Africa?)	Many United Nations agencies, World Bank?, governments of France, Germany and Japan?	official agencies (US Treasury Department, International Monetary Fund, World Bank?, US Federal Reserve, White House, 10 Downing St, World Trade Organisation); various Washington, DC think-tanks; University of Chicago (and others) Department of Economics	US Republican Party, Hoover Institute, Cato Institute
Key proponents	Marcos, Lula, Castro, Menchu, Bendana, Bello, Amin, George, Patkar, Khor, Shiva, Nader, Said, Pollitt, Chomsky	Mahathir, Mugabe, Chavez	Stiglitz, Soros, Sachs, Krugman, Wolfensohn, Jospin	Clinton, Blair, Summers, Camdessus, Greenspan, Fischer	Kissinger, Shultz, Buchanan, Helms

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