Izlaganje sa skupa
Globalization: Economic Problems and Patents on Life
Marijan Jošt
Sažetak
In this conference paper given at the Round Table Globalization and National State in the
organization of the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb 8th March 2000, the author
treats actual globalization as the synonym for hegemonism and imperialism, and in the case
of the development of biotechnology and genetic engineering demonstrates how the network
of connection (conjunction) between transnational corporations and the United States
Government brings economic, political and military instrumentalization of biotechnology
and its transformation into the specific biotechnological imperialism. Transnational corporations
have been the institutional subjects in process of globalization, while WTO (World
Trade Organization) and IMF (International Monetary Fund) serve as the institutional mechanisms
for achieving interests of these companies. It has resulted from the mistake presented
in the neoliberalistic experiment whose consequences have been reflected in the
rapid destruction of environment, in the increase of poverty, in the destabilization of society,
in the collapse of national states’ financial systems and in the geopardy of democracy
brought out by the globalization. These consequences have been shown by the analysis of
the attempts carried out by the biggest transnational corporations to control the global food
supply with support of the US Government. Corporations would like to come in control of
the global food supply with the total patent right protection aided by the so-called technology
terminator, i.e. by building into the genetically modified plant’s sorts such a genes
system which being activated destroys seeds germination just like the retaining bomb. This
technology has been designed with the purpose to protect the transnational corporation
profit, as well as to render possible for the governments that have a control of this technology
to force “disobedient” states to their knees. That’s why the most important pre-condition
for the social and economic development of the states is their national economic sovereignty.
Ključne riječi
biotechnological imperialism; globalization; multinational corporations; patent on life
Hrčak ID:
120119
URI
Datum izdavanja:
8.12.2000.
Posjeta: 2.120 *