| GlobLog - June 2003 |
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Sunday, 22/6/2003:
13:03 - THE NOBLE FEAT OF NIKE: Many anti-capitalists claim that multinationals like Nike exploit and oppress. During a journey to Vietnam, I found someone not only praising Nike sweatshops, but also claiming that Nike is an example of a good and responsible business. That someone was the ruling Communist party. In the new edition of the British magazine The Spectator I explain why. Actually, the Nike factories offer people better wages and working conditions than every alternative. If we boycott them poor workers would lose their jobs, and have to go back into farming, and have to send their children to work.
The European Left used to listen to the Vietnamese communists when they brought only misery and starvation to their population. Shouldn’t they listen to the Vietnamese now, when they have found a way to improve people’s lives? The party officials have been convinced by Nike that ruthless multinational capitalists are better than the state at providing workers with high wages and a good and healthy workplace. How long will it take for our own anticapitalists to learn that lesson?
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