Against Abolishing Nation States as the Authentic Sites of Proletariat Power

Nation states, national sovereignty and national auto-determination work as buffers on centralized world power, which elites want, calling it the New World Order – i.e. world state-capitalist techno world government – a rule by a super-rich oligarchy that cannot be challenged.

Often nation-states are territories forged through years of bloodshed and sacrifice. Thus, being too quick to dismiss their ongoing utility and importance would be unwise.

One point I would make, somewhat contrary to Trotskyist political-ideological philosophy is my insistence that socialism can work in one country – an idea which both Stalin and Hitler perverted.

Whilst it is preferable that we have socialist revolution all over the world in synchronicity, we shouldn’t wait for such a phenomena which may never eventuate.

The capitalist elite are petrified of the achievement of genuine socialism in any country, which is why they enforce embargoes against states trying to implement socialism.

One of the obstacles of socialism in one country is how to survive capitalist encirclement. A strong military with nuclear weaponry will deter capitalist invasion, and productivity and efficiency of workers’ councils and workplace democracy can produce needs for intra-nation-state economic self-sufficiency.

The example of a sophisticated and wealthy socialism (workers’ control) in one country will set a shining positive example to the rest of the nations, fueling and sparking a socialist contagion all over the world.

Certainly the establishment, ongoing development and consolidations of political power of supra-national continental unions such as the European Union, North American Union, Union of South American Nations, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Asia Cooperation Dialogue, and African Union, mean there a lot less geographical political units to control in the elitists’ quest for capitalist or techno-feudalism (Varoufakis) world government in their coveting of geopolitical power.

It follows then that I am suspicious of supra-national centralizations of political power and bureaucracy such as the European Union. Are these kinds of supra-national political institutions merely superfluous at best and insidious at worst? I hope to do more research on these pressing matters. A fair and sustained inquiry into the politically motivating factors behind Brexit is in order! My tentative and provisional feeling is that because we want decentralised political power, and maximum sovereignty of individual citizens, as much as possible, then the tiers of democracy should be local, state, national and soft law international, thus circumventing centralized world government.

Reference

Varoufakis, Y 28 June 2021, ‘Techno-Feudalism is Taking Over’, Project Syndicate, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-market-capitalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2021-06