10/01/97, wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:
>it means that the only ultimate
>remedy for the inequities of the capitalist world-system is the wholesale
>replacement of that system by another one, by a democratic and socialist
>world-government. Pigs will fly before megacorporate boards abandon the
>bottom line or sovereign states lay down their guns.
Why, Warren, do you claim a world government is necessary? Isn't democracy
increasingly less maintainable once scale passes a certain point? And is
it sovereign states that cause war or rather sovereign states ruled by
capitalism? If capitalism is dethroned then why is world government such
an obvious goal?
rkm