The world is flat

Tom Friedman in his book The World is Flat describes the global playing field is being leveld at lightning speed compared to what human history had witnessed in all its existence. This leveling trend however was first observed and predicted by Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto -- The inexorable march of technology and capital to remove all barriers, boundaries frictions and restraints to global commerce. This is consistent with your view. But capital, as we to some degree observe today, will win the upper hand in the struggle against labor. Economic mobility will always exist, but so limited that the majority will awaken to the reality sooner or later, disillusioned. The American dream and alike can set a dam against the historical trend, but the force of history and the force of class struggle will in the end break the dam with awful determination and resolution.

A few excerpts from the book:

Marx described capitalism as a force that would dissoolve all feudal, national, and religious identities giving rise to a universal civilization governed by market imperatives. Marx considered it inveitable that captial would have its way -- inevitable and also desirable. Because once capitalism destroyed all national and religious allegiances, Marx thought, it would lay bare the stark struggle between captal and labor. Forced to compete in a global race to the bottom, the workers of the world would unite in a global revolution to end oppression. Deprived of consoling distractions such as patriotism and to religion, they would see their exploitation clearly and rise up to end it.