Globalization in its current state, under a near-universal adoption of neoliberal capitalism, continues to alienate much of the working class because it presents other countries and peoples solely within the context of capital. The Left ought to highlight this, and present its clear opposition to it within this context.
Under neoliberal globalization, immigrants and refugees are only to be welcomed if they can meet some impossible litmus of neither outcompeting nor undercompeting locals, and a providing a demonstrable economic benefit. Capitalists from other countries are welcomed to exploit local workforces whenever economically possible, and leaders provide endless incentives for them to do so in their country in a complete race to the bottom. Cross-cultural exchanges are commodified within the Machiavellian context of finding tangible capital returns, while cultural heritage is commodified and overtouristed.
When many people's primary interactions with other peoples and cultures are through exploitative attempts to find a profit, some wrongly turn to xenophobic, racist, and other reactionary and bigoted ideas.
The Left ought to work tirelessly to provide the masses with an alternative form of globalization, one which seeks to connect people rather than profits, and dispense of ideals of isolationism. A better globalization is possible, start imagining it.
