It s an instrument of education of very young children through their schools teaching them how to practice democracy, teaching them to understand first and foremost their immediate neighbourhood and community. Teaching them to connect the classroom to society. Teaching them the skills of citizenship. We know what the skills for computer programming are, the skills for marketing are, the skills for business management are, and the skills for athletics are. And they are all taught in our schools, but we do not know what the skills of citizenship are for most people and that is something that can be taught.
Corporate globalization is different than civic globalization.
Corporate globalisation concentrates power in the hands of major corporations that are always merging into fewer corporations. These corporations walk a stride of planet commanding capital, technology, labour and all to many government officials. They confront governments with ultimatums, with the loss of international loans, with the loss of access to markets with the very loss of access to western governments. In my judgement, and in the judgement of many citizen groups in the United States, and in the judgement of George Soros himself, a successful financier, the global corporation is now the major threat to the democratic processes in our world. The sheer extremism and radicalism of this commercial venture is proceeding at an accelerated rate without any legal, ethical, or spiritual frameworks whatsoever.