It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.
Noam ChomskyColombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.
Noam ChomskyGlobalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the worldโs people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.
Noam Chomsky