http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_11_50/ai_54517443

(conclusion)
"What the foregoing tells us is that it is the reality of capitalism (and not simply neoliberal fanaticism) that is rapidly eliminating all possibilities of a "middle way" while seemingly breaking down all natural and social limits. When windmills were first introduced in Germany a fantastic struggle immediately commenced between the nobility, the priests and the Emperor, according to Marx, over who owned the wind - a struggle from which the wind however emerged victorious.(17) Today nature and genetics are being commodified in ways nearly as fantastic. Yet there is no point inside or outside of the system, we are told, that allows one to escape this vicious logic. The ultimate result is exactly what Polanyi argued in his critique of the self-regulating market system: the very "elements of production" land, labor and money are being undermined by a system that can accept no boundaries, and which, as its last ideological recourse can only say that this is the result of a new, higher functionalist reality of "globalization." The epochal shift, we are led to believe, is such that all local boundaries are abolished, leaving nowhere else to stand."