in Esperanto
Chapter 10: Towards the World Commonwealth
The ultimate goal of the communist revolution is the World Commonwealth. This means the creation of a literal "global village," not just a sham of words. For the first time ever, permanent peace will come to Earth. How to make it a reality?
1. Make the "Domino Revolutions."
1.1. Marx and Engels' big words
The domino theory once gained popularity as an anti-communist international political doctrine during the Cold War. This is a popular political theory that is notorious for emphasizing the danger of a domino effect of communist revolutions in Asia when justifying military intervention in Vietnam during the Indochina War. However, there are aspects of this domino theory that can be used against it as a revolutionary theory.
As discussed in the previous chapter, a communist revolution could not be achieved by a single country, but could only be successfully completed within the context of a global wave of revolution.
Marx and Engels in their youth stated that "communism is possible only as an act of the principal peoples all at once and simultaneously," and pointed out that their prerequisites were "the general development of the productive forces and the associated world traffic." Simultaneous world revolution!
When they wrote these words in the mid-19th century, they would have been nothing more than grandiose words, but today, with the great development of transportation and information-communication technology, the idea of a "simultaneous global revolution" is no longer a pipe dream.
It is by no means impossible to create a continuous revolutionary situation in which revolutions occur one after another in a short period of time, at least among major countries. To this end, the starting point is the formation of the World Commons' Convention, a revolutionary network of people aiming to realize a communist society as discussed earlier.
1.2. Geopolitics of revolution
Here, I would like to clarify how the series of revolutions described above can actually occur, and what can be called the geopolitics of revolutions.
First, where will the first fuse of the revolution be drawn? Surprisingly, I would like to answer that it is somewhere in a developed capitalist country. A communist revolution in a country where capitalism is strongly entrenched may seem impossible at first glance, but the more capitalism develops, the more its limitations become sharply and clearly exposed. For this reason, the paradox comes true that the possibility of revolution actually becomes a reality in those countries, especially in the United States. American communist revolution!!
Even "progressive" Americans may take this as a bad joke. However, when Americans themselves realize that America, which is a society with a frontier spirit based on community autonomy and a culture of self-help and mutual aid without dependence on the government, is the best place for the type of communism as described so far-let's call this "free communism" so that it resonates with American people.-, we can expect a series of world revolutions to begin in the United States.
And when that happens, the ripple effect will no doubt be enormous. It will probably spread directly to other developed capitalist countries in the world, such as Europe and Japan, and create a revolutionary wave. From there, just like dominoes, the revolution will continue to flow from the United States to Central and South America, from Europe to Africa and the Middle East, and even to Asian countries, and so on to the less developed capitalist countries.
In these less developed countries, supported by despotic political systems, large land ownership systems and blatant forms of class discrimination often remain, and the potential for revolution has accumulated considerably. We may also see popular uprising-type revolutions in some of these countries.
On the other hand, in emerging capitalist countries (including China, which has a "socialist market economy"), there is still room for capitalist development, and people's expectations for capitalism remain deep-rooted. Therefore, it may not be easy for the revolution to spread.
In fact, the remarkable capitalist economic growth of these emerging countries is seen as the key to economic revitalization through the export of products, services, and capital for developed countries such as the United States, Europe, and Japan, which have seen signs of decline in recent years.
On the other hand, in countries such as Russia and Eastern Europe that have "reverted" from self-proclaimed communism (collectivism) to capitalism, the Great Recession hit just as the symptoms such as the re-emergence of capitalist class disparities and the deterioration of social security systems have already begun to appear.
However, in these countries, even more than disillusionment with capitalism, there remains distrust and even hatred towards the pseudo-communism that the old regime advocated as an empty phrase. A revolutionary revolution will take more than a certain amount of time.
Despite this, the limits to growth will definitely come to emerging countries, including China, which continues to rise. As a result, we will reach a point where global economic growth, led by emerging countries for the time being, will slow down and decline as a whole. If this happens, common recognition of the limits of capitalism will expand globally.
That moment will be the true starting point of the world's continuous revolution, and at that time, the outbreak of communist revolution in the advanced capitalist countries should also serve as a signal for the people of other countries to start.
