In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.