Today, one faction of reactionaries denounce leftists as enemies of science, while another faction of …
Even as a young teenager, I couldn't help but feel perturbed by the implicit tension dividing up the masses in the streets. Were we advocating an alternative globalization from below or were we micro-nationalists opposed to movement, connection, and consensus?
It's funny, at this time I (also a teenager) was actually skeptical of those protests because I associated anti-trade with the xenophobic anti-immigration stuff I was surrounded with. Of course I knew they were left-wing protests but being disproportionately more exposed to right-wing ideas made me perhaps unfairly associate anti-globalization with anti-world beliefs. The funny part is that my naive association wasn't 100% wrong as Gillis notes that there were people who were anti-globalization for the wrong reasons.