In the US, it more so comes down to the individual politician as opposed to the party. Bernie Sanders (Democrat) and Donald Trump (Republican) could both be described as globalization skeptics. Meanwhile, Hilliary Clinton (Democrat) and Mitt Romney (Republican) would be more so pro-globalization.
How are attitudes towards globalization represented in your country?
Edit: in this context I mean globalization to mean foreign trade. E.g. use of tariffs, import quotas, export bans, etc.
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I think the term “globalisation” is mainly used in general political discourse as a buzz-word with different meanings, depending on who uses it. So yes, you can say that some parties are anti-globalisation, while others are “pro-globalisation,” but it isn’t a meaningful distinction in any way.
Leftists use the term “globalisation” to talk about the global developments in and centralisation of capital, while liberals and conservatives tend to use “globalisation” to mean something along the lines of international cultural developments.
It is not a meaningful term to use in general discourse, without defining it first, which you haven’t.
We have 3
One is authoritarian socialist who considers globalisation a means to maximize exploitation of workers by making money more movable than workers are.
One is basically a populist rightwing party complaining about immigrants taking both their jobs and their welfare checks, take up social housing and steal everything, but also take their welfare abroad. They don’t make any sense.a
One is unironically a pro-Russian fascist conspiracist party who wants to restore the ‘Boreal culture’ (boreal = Northern, like in Aurora Borealis). I have no clue what that is. Northern Europe is not exactly known for having a uniform culture, language or history
All of these parties are authoritarian and socially moderate to conservative to actively regressieve.
Being anti-globalisation in the Netherlands is dumb, though. We survive on trade and knowledge and information transfers and we are tiny. We need friends.
Yes, we have a party called 5 stars movement, which purports itself to be anti globalisation. You could also say that our right wing party, Lega, and one of the extreme right, FdI, have an anti globalisation streak in them, but it mostly boils down to “we want fewer foreigners here”, they never seriously contest the economic side of globalisation nor propose an alternative to it.
This is mostly because they use the anti foreigners argument to lure the working class into voting for them, but make sure not to displease their traditional pro business constituencies.
All of them, it all depends how much in the shitter you are and how much you want to stay in power. Germany stopped exports of face masks in the start of covid to sweden. Now Swedish government want to decouple electric power price from gas price, good for Sweden bad for Germany.
At the end of the day it’s the law of the jungle.
Yes, in Germany we have the AFD (Alternative für Deutschland – alternative for Germany). They are anti globalization, anti EU, anti immigration, anti women’s rights, anti democracy. They are more or less the successor to the now banned NPD (Neue nationalsozialistische Partei – new national socialist party) and basically a bunch of hardcore right wing Nazis.
Yes. Mi hazánk (nazis), Fidesz (ruling party, autocracy, just propaganda), depending on the time of the day Jobbik (ex-nazis, the one party which has shown some threat to Fidesz so it’s under dismantling now).
The ĽSNS (practically fascist borderline neo-nazi party) is pretty much anti-everything.
They were very vocal against our recent signing of defense treaty with US, our supplies to Ukraine, foreign aid, trade and even anti-EU, although they are very much pro-Russia.
They are a group harnessing any opposition votes they can and are unerwingly successful, although their votes are dying out and recently a new group split off from their party.
They have history of supporting nazi puppet state in 1939, parading in HG uniforms (Slovak equivalent of waffen SS) and some of their politicians even denied Holocaust. It’s a shameful spot on already awful Slovak political scene.
The Sweden democrats here think that NATO is pretty cool, but the EU is pretty eh. Both NATO and EU are “globalist” so they are divided
The left party is against NATO and thinks the EU is pretty eh.
All other parties range from EU, yay to YAY!!! and NATO yay to YAY!!!