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Peter,
I don't need to squirm, I have semantics (you're a dab hand yourself) and the epithet "fascist" has been so abused that it means virtually nothing beyond a manifold of pejorative connotations. However, I concede that it was inappropriate to speak of "fascist free marketeers", even though free marketeers do often in my experience exhibit incongruously conservative, religious, chauvinistic and authoritarian sensibilities.
I've said I think the logistics of world government make the idea problematic at best. What we do need I think is a way to regulate peaceful relations between countries and to encourage democratic institutions within them that address questions of self-sufficiency and sustainability. By democratic institutions I mean that every individual should be educated in and concerned about propagating the health and longevity of the society (and not just his own interests), whose ambitions should be consciously tailored to the limitations imposed by natural systems. I do think international trade should virtually cease, or gradually decline while nations develop their own fulsome capacities. I realise of course that there are a thousand objections, the main thing I'm advocating is that humanity can no longer resign itself to the hopeful benevolence of any systematised economics. On a fragile planet we have to learn to be "socially" spontaneous, the way we are individually. We have to learn to adapt to the conditions, rather than thinking we can endlessly alter the conditions, rather than altering them to suit us. Libertarian egoism puts the emphasis on individual fulfilment and (selective) human "rights", but the first ethical consideration should be human "responsibility"!
But it's all academic as it's not going to happen, or at least it might take a generational collapse to make us change our ways.
Peak oil would do it, Bazz, but isn't shale gas etc. buying lots more time?
Belly, what do you say to my criticism of unionisism?