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I'm actually in agreement with quite a bit of what you say, but hate the way you said it. I'm no "leftie" (note the nom-de-plume) but your generalised abuse of them is unfair, unwise and distasteful. It debases discourse. Automatically treating anyone with a different worldview from your own as a fool or a knave is no way to learn anything; anyway we're all fools or knaves on some issues. Amongst the anti-globalists there are in fact very few people who want no-strings-attached aid to failed governments. They are, after all, the same people who rail at banks for giving loans with insufficient monitoring, thus leaving "the poor" stuck with the debt when the funds are transferred to someone's Swiss bank account. They tend to anarchism and syndicalism, rather than statist socialism. These ideologies stress local action - and that's the way they think. Now personally I think they're often utopians (as are hard libertarians, with whom they've a lot in common). But I at least try to understand their actual position before I get stuck into it. Here endeth the lesson.
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