Chapter 6: The Idea of a World Commonwealth
6.4. Global Participatory Democracy
The World Commonwealth is a network of the world's common people and a place for the practice of global democracy. However, the idea of global democracy is, as it stands, merely an abstract dream, just like permanent peace.
In the current state system, "democracy ends at the factory gates" and "democracy ends within national borders." In other words, democracy does not reach the inside of capitalist companies, and it does not spread beyond national borders. Democracy is only applicable in the narrow sphere of politics - within the limits of "parliamentary democracy" - and only within the countries that claim it, while the international community is merely a place for collusion or war between sovereign nations.
Although the international community, led by the United States and Europe, often tries to force "democracy" militarily on countries designated as dictatorships, this kind of forced "democracy" is merely a pretext for aggressive military intervention and has nothing to do with the global democracy referred to here.
The World Commonwealth is a practical embodiment of global democracy that rejects the pretense of "democracy," goes beyond the narrow limitations of parliamentary democracy, and aims to develop participatory democracy on a global scale based on the idea of commons' sovereignty. For this reason, the World Commonwealth itself must be run by the Commons' Convention - the World Commons' Convention.
In its final form, the World Commonwealth will function as a transnational network based on the World Commons' Convention, which will also serve as its General Assembly, and will organically link the Commons' Conventions of each Zone that comprises it. For this reason, the title of this series was originally planned to be "The World Commonwealth and The Commons' Convention," but since the core of the World Commonwealth is also in the Commons' Convention and the Commons' Convention is its starting point, the title was changed midway to "The Commons' Convention and The World Commonwealth."
Such global democracy is a necessary condition for permanent peace, and the World Commonwealth, which is the institutionalization of permanent peace, is also a practical embodiment of global democracy, in that sense, global democracy and permanent peace are equivalent.
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👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
