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Full Idea
Western workers are following nationalist agendas in order to avert the effects of globalization, and resorting to nationalist and racist forms of identification.
Gist of Idea
Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation
Source
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi (The Second Coming [2019], I 'Hundred')
Book Ref
Berardi,Franco 'Bifo': 'The Second Coming' [polity 2019], p.24
A Reaction
By 'globalisation' must be meant the impersonal work and exploitation that results from huge ruthless anonymous companies. People barely know who they are working for, so it can't give them an identity.
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