Re 1980 and not before:
I have been scanning the old book Monopoly Capital, 1966, chuckling to myself re current pundits saying the current fix of globalist capitalism began in, say, 1980.
I am not a socialist, but Sweezy and Baran did tell the truth on some things, back then.
See the sections on The Giant Corporation, Militarism and Imperialism re Lilienthal etc., On The Quality of ... Life, great stuff.
They, the MNCs, were intensely booming the noncommunist world by 1966 already very very heavily, see quotes and data in chapter Militarism and Imperialism.
This really set the stage for what was to come in say the 1980s, and after, with the internet and the www, which took off all the market capitalists' attackers' gloves, while still couched in soft power (Steingart) lingo.
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