Globalization A Contemporary Islamic Response?

Abstract

Neoliberalism, as a global system, is a new war in the
conquest of territory. The end of the Third World War, or
Cold War, certainly does not mean that the world has
overcome bipolarity and rediscovered stability under the
domination of the victor. Whereas there was a defeated
side (the socialist camp), it is difficult to identify the winning
side. The United States? The European Union?
Japan? Or all three? ... Thanks to computers, the financial
markets, from the trading floor and according to their
whims, impose their laws and precepts on the planet.
Globalization is nothing more than the totalitarian extension
of their logic to every aspect of life. The United
States, formerly the ruler of the economy, is now governed
- tele-governed - by the very dynamic of financial
power: commercial free trade. And this logic has made
use of the porosity produced by the development of
telecommunications to take over every aspect of activity
in the social spectrum. The result is an all-out war.'
In the 1950s and the 1960s, a phase in the history [of the
Third World] that the supporters of globalization wish to
marginalize and assassinate, culture was in fact made up
of two kinds: imperialist/hegemonic culture and liberationist/nationalist
culture. Those influenced by the ideology
of globalization desire to create a new genre of culture:
the culture of opening and renewal and that of withdrawal
and stagnation. - Muhammad 'Abid al Jabiri ...