By far the best option for doing this involves ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.[14] The Earth Constitution creates a democratic World Parliament with the authority and mandate to demilitarize the world, control and reform multinational corporations, protect the global environment, and take banking powers away from the 1% and place them in the service of the people of Earth. It is difficult for me to understand why the left in so many countries seems incapable of transcending its ethnocentric, localized perspective. The world has been our "spaceship" for at least half a century and needs to be run as one. Right now it is run in totalitarian fashion by the Darth Vaders of the Empire of Chaos and Global Dracula.
There can be no decent future for humanity, nor for any nation, nor for our planetary environment, unless WE THE PEOPLE take over the spaceship and run it for the benefit of all. As Bernie Sanders recently said: "We are all in this together. We are all interdependent with one another."[15] National interests alone will not cut it on spaceship Earth. But American listeners, perhaps including Sanders himself, conditioned as they are to think in terms of a little piece of the Earth defined by territorial boundaries, do not readily think about the deeper meaning of what he said.
They think he meant "All Americans are in this together." But anuthentic spirituality goes beyond this to all human beings, and, despite what Bernie sometimes says, it appears as if he has an authentic spirituality--a sense of compassion so fundamental to our common human dignity. If Bernie is elected, he may well be forced by the nation-state institutions to violate his own spirituality and promote the interests of some territorial fragment to the exclusion of the rest of humanity.
The "left" might be defined as including those people who recognize, at least in some degree, the dignity of all human beings and the moral imperative to establish economic and political systems that satisfy our basic human needs. The left supports democratic socialism, preservation of our planetary ecology, societies of, by, and for the people, and people's right to develop the potential of their lives in peace and freedom.
But the left is in disarray because it lacks a unifying vision. It operates from democratic instincts and impulses, but has no coordinated vision of how things could really be different. Resistance alone, civil disobedience alone, will not change the global system of domination and exploitation. This vision is supplied by the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
In the 21st century, you cannot have an authentic "left" within sovereign nation-states, because an authentic, spiritually awakened and morally credible left is necessarily universal. Democracy is a universal moral concept. So are ideals of human rights, human dignity, human freedom, and world peace. As Sanders said, we are all in this together. We need to ratify the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. We need to act from our common humanity and become voices for the people of Earth who long for freedom, peace, justice and sustainability. Our best hope for doing this is to become living global advocates on behalf of the World Parliament and the Earth Constitution.
Endnotes
[1] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44538.htm
[2] The Fall of the US Empire--And Then What? (Kolofon Press, 2009), 13
[4] New York: Henry Holt, 2007.
[5] See Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire (New York: Henry Holt, 2004).
[6] The Empire of Chaos Strikes Back against Brazil, Russia and China Pepe Escobar
[7] Panama Papers in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-panama-papers
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