Dear Christian,
Yes, that is exactly the question. How? And yes, there is no
hint in 1996 of anything like a World Party forming anywhere. But you
can't leap from this observation to the conclusion that "it ain't gonna
happen." The more people who believe that the best way to confront the
challenge of a proliferating globalizing capitalism aided and abetted by
the nation-state system is to build a global political formation to oppose
that system, the more likely it is that a nucleus of activists here or
there will begin to build one--or several. We have to start with some
kind of rough consensus about what must be done. Never mind the odds.
They're pretty low. So what? We don't have the option of moving to Mars.
You play with the hand you've been dealt. What comes first is a climate
of expectation for authentically antisystemic global political action.
The more people who share that expectation, the more likelihood it can
provoke serious attempts to move from theory to praxis. In short, you
gotta believe!
Warren