Which is, of course, why the anti-globalisation activists hate the whole thing so much. Because it makes a complete mockery of the idea of social change as something they direct and they can control. It is of a society directed by a revolutionary elite who control all aspects of social life in order to create a transformed humanity and a transformed society. These people claim they are so concerned about poverty, yet there is nothing more predictable than that the policies they espouse will create, extend and entrench mass poverty. The protestors hate globalisation as the expression of the success of capitalism, and of the collapse of socialism.
Globalisation is simply the application of liberal capitalism on a global stage.
And liberal capitalism is the only form of society which has sustainably delivered mass prosperity, mass longevity, mass freedom and mass democracy. It does so because it allows a myriad of economic agents to make their own choices, through property rights, the rule of law and free and open political processes. Liberal capitalism is the most dynamic social system humanity has ever created. But it remains a boon. The increase in mass prosperity and longevity, the creation of mass freedom and mass democracy, is such a stunning achievement that no-one who does not seek to understand the nature of that achievement, who does not acknowledge that achievement, can be said to be seriously concerned with human welfare.