Micklethwait and Wooldridge contend that "one of the things that Marx would recognize
immediately about this particular global era is a paradox that
he spotted in the last one: The more
successful globalization becomes, the more it seems to whip up its own backlash.... The undoing of
globalization, in Marx's view, would come not just from losers resenting the success of the winners
but also from the w
inners themselves losing their appetite for the battle." "There is even a suspicion,"
they go on, "that globalization's psychic energy
—
the uncertainly that it creates which forces
companies, governments, and people to perform better
—
may have a natural stal
l point, a movement
when people can take no more.