Re:Populism and the Economics of Globalization [pdf]
by anigbrowl on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:29PM
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Precisely why I'm for it. I'm not in favor of replacing national with corporate sovereignty, though, or rather I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty. Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.
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Re:Populism and the Economics of Globalization [pdf]
by msimpson on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:59PM
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> Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.
First of all, nationalism is not national sovereignty.
The former is a social construct which an individual embraces while the latter is a principal of law which a group embraces.
The former is hardly useful, but the latter is vital to all existing nations. No nation is going to willingly give up its right to self governance.
> I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty.
So, essentially, you wish to live in a world without borders where one or more unions govern many places regardless of geographical separation?
Because that worked out so well in the past...
Re:Populism and the Economics of Globalization [pdf]
by anigbrowl on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:40PM
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Essentially, yes I do and I'm fully aware of the operational and philosophical difficulties of such an undertaking. I have ideas about how to implement a distributed governance approach without falling back into patterns of autocratic central control, but am still working on how to make those robust against attempts at hijacking and so forth.