From the new issue of The American Conservative, Prof. James Kurth offers this succinct statement on globalisation in an interesting article on income inequality:

Anyone who claims that globalization is a conservative process is either a liar or a fool. 

I was interested to see Prof. Kurth make the argument that growing economic inequality on a global scale empowers ideologies, such as Islamism, that preach egalitarian doctrines of one kind or another, and he is right to make this point.  He could have reinforced his argument with some mention of the Maoist Naxalites currently wreaking havoc in eastern India as the perfect example of the losers–or non-participants–of globalisation fueling radical and violent political movements in the developing world.