tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post4443027289977508690..comments2023-09-25T07:01:43.067-04:00Comments on Critical Montages: The Most Powerful Pacific Weapons of the New World OrderYoshiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826849368615187619noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post-85562410754330263442007-10-23T00:35:00.000-04:002007-10-23T00:35:00.000-04:00"Providing the services" and the moral authority t..."Providing the services" and the moral authority to do so are two sides of the same coin, and as some have said (Negri and Hardt, perhaps) the NGOs are thus becoming a key part of global rule, along with transnational, non-democratic institutions and legal regimes like the WTO, World Bank and GATT.bobwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13010756913943946001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post-56801917067071458392007-10-21T10:37:00.000-04:002007-10-21T10:37:00.000-04:00Mike Davis (especially in Planet of Slums) has ill...Mike Davis (especially in <A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=OJeQAQAACAAJ" REL="nofollow"><EM>Planet of Slums</EM></A>) has illustrated the growth of global slums and social and cultural trends there better than Hardt and Negri. I agree that slum dwellers, most of whom are unemployed or work in the informal sector, cannot be organized, and their lives improved, according to the model of industrial unionism and traditional Marxism. Therefore, social services to the poor are very important, which secular leftists have done less well than religious organizations. But it's not service work that I am criticizing here -- the problem is moral entrepreneurship of transnational "human rights" organizations, which call upon the Western public to sign this or that petition, express appropriate outrage against this or that Third-World government, and call for often ill-considered Western government interventions (including "peace-keeping" troops sometimes).Yoshiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826849368615187619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786517.post-28505223255000403832007-10-21T00:01:00.000-04:002007-10-21T00:01:00.000-04:00I believe Negri and Hardt also observe that the NG...I believe Negri and Hardt also observe that the NGOs have now become the only effective government in many of the most desparate parts of the world, the great slum cities in third world countries that have no resources to serve them.bobwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13010756913943946001noreply@blogger.com