Human Rights Reader 236

•  Let’s call a spade a spade: Globalization is a project of the North to globalize its corporate power.
• The market fundamentalism at its base is not only a system of ideas, but also an algorithm for restructuring state institutions; it shifts responsibility for social provision away from the state and towards individual households; it is antithetical, for instance, to health equality. The idea of human rights simply loses meaning if its realization is contingent on income or purchasing power. (T. Schrecker)

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