in Esperanto
Chapter 10: Towards the World Commonwealth
2. Make the communist earth.
2.1. Creation of the World Commonwealth
During the Cold War era, if you had mentioned things like global communism, you would have been placed on the surveillance list of Western intelligence agencies, but that would no longer be the case today. I hope so.
Therefore, I can say now that we can bring communism to the entire earth through the domino revolutions, and doing so is necessary for the survival of this earth itself. In particular, in order to achieve global environmental standards to ensure environmental sustainability, a planned economy must be introduced not only at the regional level but also throughout the globe.
In addition, the abolition of national standing armies, which are among the highest in terms of carbon emissions in the public sector, and the almost equivalent global renunciation of war, which is itself an environmentally destructive activity, must also be achieved.
What makes this possible is the creation of the World Commonwealth that has been often mentioned, and this is the ultimate goal of the continuous world revolutions.
2.2. Basic structure of the World Commonwealth
Although the World Commonwealth has some similarities with the current United Nations, the crucial difference in political terms is that the concept of national sovereignty - and therefore, the sovereign states that maintain such sovereignty - will be abandoned.
The current United Nations is characterized by its structure as a federation of member sovereign states, but this is precisely where it has its major limitations. Since each member state reserves the right to act in its own national interest, there is no obligation to ratify not only a simple resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, but even a United Nations treaty that has the nature of international law. Ratification is chosen in the name of national sovereignty and national interests of member states. Sometimes countries do not even comply with the treaties they have ratified.
In contrast, under the World Commonwealth, sovereign states are abolished, and each "country" retains autonomous administration within a certain domain as a zone included in the World Commonwealth, but its administrative power is fully bound by the Charter of the World Commonwealth (World Constitution) and its treaties (World Law).
By adopting this structure, the "territorial issue" that has been the number one cause of war throughout history will also disappear. This is because each zone no longer possesses exclusive "territory", but is only guaranteed a "domain" over which it has relative administrative power.
However, disputes over the scope of the "domain" will continue to exist, and new ones may arise, but all such "domain disputes" will be resolved peacefully only through dispute mediation institutions directly under the control of the World Commonwealth.
By the way, the official name of the World Commonwealth is la Monda Komunumo in Esperanto, which is the provisional official language. We will touch on its significance in the next section.
2.3. Global planned economy
Now, the most decisive difference between the World Commonwealth and the existing United Nations is in the economic aspect. While the United Nations is nothing more than a political union of nations, the essence of the World Commonwealth is that it is a unified economic entity that covers the entire globe.
In other words, it will become possible to globally unify economic policies, which are currently left to each country's sovereignty as an internal matter. Specifically, on a truly global scale, commodity production and monetary exchange will be abolished and replaced with a communist-style planned economy and complementary economic cooperation.
For this purpose, the World Economic Planning Organization is established as a specialized organization directly under the control of the World Commonwealth, and production planning goals at the world level based on environmental standards are presented.
To go into more detail, the World Economic Planning Organization is an organization comprised of multiple world production business associations (for example, World Steel Association, World Automobile Industry Association, etc.) which integrates production business organizations in each zone, focusing on environmentally burdensome industrial fields that are particularly targeted under the regulation of emissions of carbon dioxide and other harmful substances. These world production business associations jointly formulate and implement economic plans at the global level. It can be thought of as a global version of the Economic Planning Conference in each zone.
These global economic plans have the meaning of setting a general framework (cap) for production activities across the globe. This does not mean that discretion in individual economic planning for each zone is eliminated, but once such a cap system is established, each zone's economic planning will be autonomous within the framework of this cap. It will function as a quota.
At the same time, such a planned economy at the global level also procures goods and services that each zone cannot provide itself from nearby sources as much as possible (for example, cars in Africa are procured from nearby Europe rather than from the United States or Japan). It also plays a role in interregional economic cooperation.
In addition, as an economic coordination organization in the food and agriculture sector that does not fit into general economic planning, the World Food and Agriculture Organization, a World Commonwealth specialized agency that succeeds and develops the current Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, will be established. This will enable us to reclaim food and agriculture, which are currently being captured by international capital in the name of free trade.
The disappearance of international commerce, which today is called world trade, will greatly reduce the huge amount of international logistics transportation that characterizes global capitalism, and will also contribute to the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.
Finally, global communism can also make groundbreaking contributions to the sustainable management of natural resources. In other words, the World Natural Resources Organization, also a World Commonwealth specialized agency, will be established to extract, manage, and equitably supply natural resources, which would become ownerless property along with land under communism, on a global level. It would also be worth considering establishing a separate World Water Resources Organization to conserve water, which is a vital natural resource for all living things, and to provide it hygienically and equitably.
Through these measures, intensive natural resource management that is considerate of the global environment will be realized, and the negative effects of resource nationalism/resource capitalism will be overcome.
2.4. The universality of communism
By the way, when you hear about global communism, you may wonder if it is possible to unify the world's peoples, who have different cultural climates and degrees of economic and social development, under one umbrella of communism.
My answer to this question is as follows. Communism does not impose a particular cultural or development model, but is merely a system of social management centered on production and labor. Therefore, just as the capitalist system has spread globally with considerable universality, it is entirely possible that the communist system will spread as universally or even more universally.
In particular, I believe that being liberated from monetary domination will probably be good news for all peoples in the world. This is because the extremely uneven development between various nations, symbolized by the still unresolved global North-South disparity problem and the South-South disparity problem that has become more prominent in recent years, is precisely due to the disparity in the amount of money held by various nations.
In this sense, human beings are "nations" with various differences, and before that, they can be a universal "commons" who together aim for communism.
