Re: World Party discussion

I read Wagar’s A Short History of the Future in the summer of 1991. I
was profoundly moved.  I am a red diaper baby. My parents were active
Communists in the 1930s through mid 1950s. Their legacy to me: We cannot
accept a world of rich and poor, we cannot witness human suffering and
misery without acting. In spite of all their delusions and the
monumental crimes committed by “communist” regimes, soiling the red
flag, the radical and humanist vision of world communism inspired and
energized millions of rank-and-file communists and socialists.  Just as
this internationalist vision of my parents generation, a global vision
for the attainment of universal human rights motivates the best of
today’s generation of activists. I submit this is core vision of a WP,
realizing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Lets drop the "isms" for a moment  and consider our goals in their
fundamentals:
Every child born on this planet has the right to a full life of creative
fulfillment, to an environment free of hatred and pollution, to inherit
an Earth with its fantastic diversity of life.  The enormous potential
of new information and renewable energy technologies to actualize these
rights can only be realized by a radical democratization and
demilitarization of global society. To sum up in a red/green revision of
the classical aphorism: "from each according to her ability, to each
according to her needs", with each and her referring to both human
beings and nature (ecosystems). We demand the impossible only within the
limits of serving capital first. We will reform, alter and when
necessary revolutionize every social and economic relation to realize
these rights. 

The creation of a new social regime for capital reproduction with
progressively increasing global regulation is arguably a necessary
condition to realize our goals (analogous to and including B. Sandler’s
“green” regime; Rethinking Marxism, 1994, 7: 38-57). This is precisely
what left critics of WTO demonstrating on November 30 will be demanding
with respect to labor rights and environmental protection. Is this a
description of an evolutionary or revolutionary scenario? Likely both.
At some point in the future we should anticipate the end of capital
reproduction.

Some suggestions for the main characteristics of an organizational
scenario for the WP: 
- Transnational labor at its core
- From its inception, effective participation from North and South,
transnational individual membership.
- Start with a network, including participation of existing national
parties  (green, socialist, communist that support human rights and
oppose neoliberal approaches),  increase organizational cohesion
progressively, with each stage determined by total and regional
individual membership.
- Multiple membership; the WP should not aim to replace progressive
national parties and movements but rather defend the common interests of
humanity in every national struggle.

P.S. My argument for “solar communism” is found in:
Science & Society, Fall 1996, Special Issue "Marxism and Ecology", 60,
No.3, Introduction (as guest editor), 261-265; Solar Communism, 307-331. 
See also, Reply, Science & Society, Summer 1998, v. 62, No.2, 272-274
Comment on Wagar, 1996, Journal of World-Systems Research 2, No.2-k.
(linked to the WP website)
A World Party. Vehicle of Global Green Left, 1992, EcoSocialist Review,
Spring, 4-5.
Towards a sustainable socialist strategy, Crossroads, 1991, December
(No.16), 19-24, 32.