This is a quote from an editorial by William Pfaff (syndicated columnist) Date was around 1996
IS `GLOBALIZATION' JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR IMPERIALISM?
The "globalization" of national economies, so enthusiastically promoted by American government and business today, as during the past decade, amounts to an ideological form of Western imperialism to which the rest of the world is compelled to react. It now is meeting significant opposition, increasingly expressed in political as well as economic terms. The pattern is familiar. The center of Western power--the U.S. --attempts to impose upon others its own vision of how the world should be ordered. A workshop, mainly composed of senior economic historians, convoked at Harvard by the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, recently asked why some countries are rich and some so poor. It found a part of the answer in the fact that the modern world is largely of Western invention, as are the industrial techniques for making a society rich.
A Russian at this Cambridge meeting described the last few years in his country in terms of national humiliation. First came the collapse -- deserved, he agrees--of the Soviet system and of the doctrine which had governed Russia's actions since 1918. That was followed by a chaotic and caricatural economic Westernization, producing robber-capitalism and inviting Russia's exploitation by Western interests. At the same time many ordinary Russians have experienced falling living standards, and a certain demoralization of Russian society has taken place.
He spoke of the times when Russia was isolated, and pursued its own course, as the best and most confident periods in its history. One may wonder if that is really true, but the sentiment expressed is very important. Once again an unconsidered and largely self-interested foreign intervention is generating negative consequences among thoughtful people, and not merely among demagogic nationalists--although the latter profit from this.
The West's aggressive promulgation of its own ideas and values has in the past produced both good and some extremely bad results. World wars and universal ideologies are characteristic Western products. Other cultures have been undermined and destroyed because of the West's thoughtless conviction of the natural superiority of its own ideas. Material success has produced arrogance.