Socialism: Globalization as the Fulfilment of History

Abstract

This chapter examines how different meanings are bestowed on the concept of globalization depending on the variation in interpretations of the concepts located in its proximity within the three main socialist currents of Marxism, democratic socialism and social democracy. The fact that the respective concepts of globalization are diverse and in some respects incompatible serves as a pungent reminder that the analysis of the ideological readings of globalization requires attention not just to differences between broad ideological families but also to conceptual shifts within the ambit of any family as having a potentially significant bearing upon the resultant understandings of globalization.