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My concern, and the concern of others, is the kind of society that we will be creating with untrammeled globalization. Are we going to be a society like Brazil or, God forbid, Mexico?
Are we going to see a new and more powerful worldwide Marxist movement led by those who are unable to compete in this new world?

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US becoming Brazil? Mexico? That's a leap IMO. I can tell you that in Mexico's case Marxist ideology has gone nowhere fast. The Zapatista movement flirted with it, castro has tried hard there, and nothing has come of it. Our conversations with Mexicans proves at least to me that the Mexican poor are every bit as ambitious as any other ambitious person.

Renewed international Marxist movement? That is always a possibility and one which disturbs me as well. Immigration here helps stifle that possibility as I see it. I see the seeds (maybe more) of an even worse possibility than Marxism already in an energized islam. That is what we are fighting now, but its causes are only tangentially economic. Your response?