Issodhos writes:
> Martin wrote:
> >  Only if a world federal
> >  government were eventually established in the future, a government
> >  that would possess a monopoly of coercive force, would we have a state
> >  of global peace from which the anarchy of sovereign states and their
> >  state of war with one another would be abolished."
>
>      And I wonder whose interests that government would serve?:-)

You mean if it was a constitutional oligarchy as opposed to a
constitutional democracy.  Then it would probably be much like the
US. There would be world peace, assuming the world government was as
stable as that of the US, and the economic class structure would
approach that of the US.  Not the best of all possible worlds, but I
think it would be better than the present world situation.  But if the
world government was organized as more of a social democracy, then I
think it would be more like Norway, which would be even better.  And
you would still get to own a gun.

martin

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