Globalism

Globalism is the ongoing liberal authoritarian desire for a "one world" view that rejects the role of sovereign nations in protecting values and encouraging productivity. Globalism is anti-nationalist in that it encourages Americans to adopt a "world view" rather than an "American view."

Globalism is expressed using terms such as "one world," and supports a centralized, single world government. Some groups such as the World Federalist Movement, the Bilderbergers, the IMF, and some non-Christian religions such as Bahai, actively campaign for world government. "Global" is a fashionable term in business, where the word "international" would be more appropriate.

The term "global" looks at the world as a single cohesive unit while the term "international" better recognizes the world's different countries, different cultures, different languages, different ethnicities, and national borders. Thus, the two terms are not the same thing and using them interchangeably is often incorrect; however, it should be noted that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Globalism also involves the theory of a "global economy" in which the economic achievements of most if not all nations are seen to be interdependent with those of other nations around the world because of international trade. This is possible because of recent technological inventions such as the internet. For example, a farmer in Ghana can now be insured that he is paid the standard market price for a particular crop because of the standards set in Chicago which he can check with a telephone or internet connection. This is, of course, a false argument because there are two distinctly different economies in Ghana and Chicago.