The lesson is, resistance to global capitalism is not just futile, it is suicidal. The lesson is, play with identity politics and all that cultural wars stuff to your hearts content, but fuck with global capitalism and we will squash you like a tomato bug.
Sounds about right. If you hinder free trade you are aggravating way too many powerful people for that to be sustainable. I think the future ultimately lies in the public controlling everything through globalized and decentralized trade.