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What is a Global Ideology?
Is
there such a thing as a global ideology? Well perhaps not but
there are ideologies that are dominant during the present period
of globalisation. Imperialism and communism were other great periods
of 'globalisation' having their own ideological justification
(based on collective state ownership of the means of economic
production or a cultural and economic civilising mission radiating
from Western Europe). In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,
European Imperialism was perhaps the most pervasive form of globalisation
that the World has ever known, whilst in the Twentieth Century,
communism triumphantly controlled the
majority of the World's people.
Our
present period of globalisation, based on the growth of global
capitalism, democracy, and free trade, is also driven by an ubiquitous
ideological exuberance and legitimating popular economic theories.
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