Social Justice and Globalization

Sam Gindin, author of the winning essay in the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize contest, "Anti-Capitalism and the Terrain of Social Justice," has written another excellent piece for Monthly Review. This time it's on the question of whether the concepts of social justice and globalization are compatible. His essay opens with a bang:

In a speech in 1999, Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, candidly remarked that “globalization” is another term for U.S. domination. Such clarity tends, in itself, to negatively answer the question posed in the title of this talk. How can anyone argue that U.S. domination—or using the less polite term, “U.S. imperialism”—is compatible with social justice?

Also from MR this month, check out how violence can be a tool of order and/or change.