Another world

It’s worth reading the Another World is Possible website to understand the opposition to the World Economic Forum.

“The WEF is essentially a multimillion dollar cocktail party in which the financiers and racketeers of global capitalism brainstorm and informally plan the imposition of ‘free market’ imperatives upon the rest of the globe. These imperatives further aid in the destruction of the environment, the exploitation of workers internationally and locally, the erosion of human, animal, and worker rights, and the forceful replacement of native cultures with a monolithic corporate consumer culture. Finally, the WEF is a mechanism by which the cycles of classism, racism, and sexism are indirectly reproduced and spread.”

Other than the multimillion dollar cocktail party jibe, I don’t recognise any of this (but I’ll admit to a long history of incomprehension of this extremist end of the anti-capitalist movement). Maybe I’ve been going to the wrong sessions in Davos for ten years.

Interestingly, the site does contain a reasonably up-to-date list of Davos in New York participants, and a statistical breakdown.