Shift the landscape of globalization. Reset the intersectionality of the global north and the global south, east-west collaborations, the space between indigeneity and labour mobility, semi-sovereign entities and ecological development sectors
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The Socialist-Capitalist paradigm no longer makes sense in the context of global trade, global capital and global markets. The difference between the two is really one of regulations. Regulating state control vs deregulating free markets. Large economies are regionalizing and competing over the varying degrees with which States perpetuates free market principles for large corporations while trying to protect the general welfare of their citizenry.
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Democratic mechanisms are not delivering to people the change that they both desperately want as the structures of democracy are predicated on individual rights and self-centered motivations, and not on community structures or customary rights. We can no longer separate the responsibility of democracy from our rights over how and what we consume or how we engage in markets. Democracy becomes nothing more than feed in the trough of capitalism.
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Capitalism is not democracy. When we put free-market capitalism before democracy, the gravity of consumption and wealth accumulation displaces the commons, the public ownership and public responsibility and hides it in the hands of corporations with only the most minimal standard of accountability.
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Every system is open to abuse, but this is the point of historical materialism. Just as history is a result of conditions rather than ideals, so is our present and future. By understanding what the conditions are, our ideals can become manifest using the regulatory tools that minimize the abuse: monitoring, auditing, enforcement, compliance, coherence, consent.
How does the U.S. achieve a just, fair and equitable world when the dominant administrator of our global institutions is predicated on genocide, slavery, theft, fraud and exclusion. Erasure is not governance.
The exchange of capital does not require the free market The exchange of goods, services and capital requires access and infrastructure. It requires regulated markets with rules that are fair and equitable and a dispute mechanism that is just. We need to remember that people make markets, and that supply chains flourished long before Adam Smith and David Ricardo. What provided wealth– including genuine wealth (aka wellbeing), was access to markets. Free market capitalism privatized that access, suffocating the organic development of all peoples by diverting the accumulation of wealth into the machinations of the few.
Before free-marketeering there was no such thing as a unipolar single market until the US-led Marshall Plan imposed its will on the planet and the multipolar system. And history being the juggernaut that it is, is paving a new way forward. There are countless ways backwards, but I’m not interested in apocalyptic visions, so let’s keep paving it forward and regulate those markets by using real market indicators to establish values in things that have value, like ecological biodiversity and allow our oceans and forests to restore natural production and mutual security, for example.
We all become globalists when we acknowledge that there are laws greater than the myopic interpretations of the original drafters of our Constitutions or the fallacious laws that militarize the economic hegemon. The Law of Nature is one. The hubris of those who believe that their rights are greater than the laws of nature are doomed to perpetuate the greatest tragedy: the massacre of our commons.
If you dismiss a conspiracy theory, then you embrace a coincidence theory!
The cost of empire is too high a price!