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A world federation : Comments
By John Avery, published 4/12/2018We have the power to choose a future where international anarchy, chronic war and institutionalized injustice will be replaced by democraticand humane global governance.
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Your implication that western nations only wanted colonies to exploit the people in them, is similar to the standard left wing commie claim that employers are just the exploiters of workers. While in some cases it might have been true, for the most part all the European colonisers did was displace the ethnic rulers who already exploited their own people. Only the Europeans usually ruled responsibly and they gave something back. They built roads, railways, industries, schools, hospitals, banks, bridges, law courts, plantations, and ports. When the socialists succeeded in ending colonialism, most of these places reverted to barbarism. It's funny how the colonised, who once rejoiced in chucking out the white man, now clamour to live with us.
"What was left behind for them" was usually a functioning country with a working economy. Don't blame the white people if their former charges don't have the wit to run with the ball we passed to them.
Your next fallacy is to chant the socialist mantra that disparities in wealth should not exist. Look mate, there are only two economic models. Socialism or a free market. Socialism promised equality but failed miserably in every damned place it was tried. Got that? It doesn't work. Never has worked. Never will work. Free markets produce inequalities in wealth because the smart guys always get rich while the dumb guys stay on the bottom. You can tax the smart guys to pay for the dumb guys but only up to a point. Sooner or later the smart guys go somewhere else where their brains are not exploited so that crooked politicians can't use their money to buy the votes of the dumb.