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The
anti-globalization movement may have a reputation for traffic-blocking
obstructionism devoid of a positive program, but this smart and stimulating
manifesto aims to change that. Monbiot (Amazon Watershed; Captive State) is
uncompromising in his attack on what he says is an international order run by
and for wealthy elites and powerful corporations. But he is equally critical of
what he sees as the left’s infatuation with localism and anarchism, its
knee-jerk opposition to trade and its preoccupation with feel-good palliatives
like "mindful consumption." What he offers instead is a utopian vision of a
global democratic order that transcends the obsolete nation-state, based on a
real world program for concrete institutions to supplant the undemocratic power
centers of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade
Organization. His most substantive ideas concern world trade, which he feels
should be restructured to open advanced countries to Third World exports while
allowing backward economies to develop behind protectionist barriers. He calls
for a Fair Trade Organization to set mandatory standards for international
corporations, and resurrects Keynes’s proposal for an International Clearing
Union that would automatically rectify trade imbalances and prevent poor
countries from getting trapped in debt. Less thought out are proposals for a
revitalized United Nations General Assembly that would abolish the Security
Council, and a directly elected World Parliament, initially vested only with
"moral authority." Monbiot’s ideas will find their critics, but his often
scintillating analyses of the inequities of the world economy and his preference
for constructive action over dogma make the book a good place to start for
readers in search of solutions.
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Directed to participants in, and ideologues of, the
antiglobalization movement (or, in the author's preferred terminology, "the
global justice movement"), Monbiot here debates the best way to bring about the
revolution to overthrow capitalism, corporations, and the nation-state. On that
goal, Monbiot, communists, and anarchists can agree, but Monbiot dismisses
Marxist prescriptions, saying that they have already been tried and have failed,
and believes that anarchists are completely unrealistic... 
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A visionary road map for humanity's first global democratic
revolution.
All over the planet, the rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt
and disaster. The world is run by a handful of executives who make the most
important of decisions—concerning war, peace, debt, development, and the balance
of trade. Without democracy at the global level, the rest of us are left in the
dark. George Monbiot shows us how to turn on the light.
Emphasizing not only that things ought to change, but how to change them,
Monbiot develops an interlocking set of proposals that mark him as the most
realistic utopian of our time. With detailed discussions of what a world
parliament might look like, how trade can be organized fairly, and how
underdeveloped nations can leverage their debt to obtain real change,
Manifesto for a New World Order offers a truly global perspective, a
defense of democracy, and an understanding of power and how it might be captured
from those unfit to retain it.