I have been thinking about this for a few days…
but I have to lay out the ground work…
we have political systems and we have economic systems…
among the political systems are:
Anarchy, city-state, democracy, feudalism, dictatorship, meritocracy,
monarchy, republic, oligarchy, aristocracy… to name a few possible
political systems…
and to name a few economic systems:
Capitalism, communism, distribution, feudalism, mercantilism, socialism,
mix system, hunter gather…
again we have other economic systems but you get the idea…
now note, that capitalism and communism is listed as economic systems…
this is important…when people like wendy and void and fixed raise
their voice against communism… they are making a basic mistake…
they mistake communism as a political system and not the economic
system that it is…
you can have any type of political system and any type of economic
system… you can mix and match political systems with any type
of economic system… you can have capitalism (economic) with
a dictatorship (political) you can have a democracy with communism
the mixing of a political system with a economic system…
the failure of the soviet union under lenin and stalin was that
they stretch an economic system into a political system…
and this is what the anti-globalist fear… but they haven’t separated
out the political system with the economic system…
that is the anti-globalist mistake…
the anti-globalist mistake the economic system with the political
system…
globalism is an economic system already in place… we trade globally
already… every country trades with just about every other country…
this is globalism at work…but globalism in this fashion is NOT an
political system… and if turned into a political system, it will fail…
the real problem is we don’t have a political system in place that
is the political equivalent of globalism… we have widely divided
and separated political systems that are unable to cope with the
effects of economic globalism… and this is the source of the
current problems economically and politically…
we have not expanded our political system to
to match out economic system…now we can use say, democracy
as our political system in regards to globalism, an economic system
or we can use dictatorship (political) to match globalism, economic…
our political systems has not been expanded enough to solve
the current problems created by globalism… big multinational
corporations are global and we don’t have a political system that is global
that can reign in multinational corporations…
if you look at the world’s issue’s, multinational corporations are
in many ways, one of the leading problems in the world today
and we must find a solution to being able to contain big corporations
that span over many countries and many different continents…
we cannot turn globalism into a political system because it will
fail as such but if we make or find a way to turn our current political
system or systems into being able to contain multinational corporations,
we will be much better off and this is where we are at…
Wendy’s dystopia is really a question of an economic system running
amok and not being controlled or contained by an political system…
once we have a political structure big enough to control multinational
corporations, we will have a much easier time of containing the world’s
problems… so the question becomes simple, what political
system is best for individuals and also controls multinational corporations?
we don’t need to create a dystopian world to reign in multinational
world, we just have to expand or create a new political structure…
it isn’t really that hard… we just have to decide and make it happen…
Kropotkin