If McDonough believes capitalism is as bad as all that, then it seems surprising that she is reaching out to the people responsible for this mess. In reality she is using the same tactics as Blair, employing left wing terminology to keep the members happy. Alexa concludes that the NDP must come to terms with change and globalization. Globalization is not by definition some kind of disaster. Socialists are well aware of globalization, and have been since Marx and Engels predicted it 150 years ago in the Communist Manifesto.
Globalization is an inevitable consequence of capitalism.
The world market ensures that regional crises end up in global catastrophes. The NDP leadership's move to the right ignores the fact that people's ideas can change very rapidly. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of Mulroney's Conservatives support that. The coming global slump will inevitably lead to the questioning of market ideology and push socialist ideas to the fore. It is a way for everybody to win.