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The process of globalization has brought hundreds of millions of workers into a common struggle against the transnational corporations, and created
an unprecedented opportunity to break down national barriers and elaborate an international socialist strategy. The technological and productive
advances associated with globalization, if placed under the control of the world's producers, make it possible for the first time in history to guarantee
jobs, decent living standards and democratic rights for all people all over the globe.

Socialism takes as its starting point the development of the productive forces, which Marxists insist is the prerequisite for the creation of a genuinely
egalitarian and humane society. The Greens, to the contrary, tend to view economic development itself, not capitalism, as the greatest danger facing
humanity, and seek to reassert the nation-state as an antidote to the global development of the productive forces.