Een wereldregering leidt tot een werelddictatuur

[Jay-P.]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Allesstroomt

The need is for an international political authority which, without power to direct the different people what they must do, must be able to restrain them from action which will damage others.

An international authority...
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F.A.Hayek

Ik kan het niet beter zeggen.

[Allesstroomt]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Allesstroomt

The need is for an international political authority which, without power to direct the different people what they must do, must be able to restrain them from action which will damage others.

An international authority can be very just and contribute enormously to economic prosperity if it merely keeps order and creates conditions in which the people can develop their own life; but it is impossible to be just or to let people live their own live if tbe central authority doles out raw materials and allocates markets, if every spontanous effort has to be "approved" and nothing can be done without sanction of the central authority.

That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinksdesirible in its own immediate interest, however damaging to others, needs little emphasis now.

It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standard of living, that membership of a national group should entitle one to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.

The form of international governement under which certain strictly defined powers are transferred to an international authority, while in other respects the individual countries remain responsible for their internal afffairs, is, of course, that of a federation. We must not allow the numerous ill-considerd and often extremely silly claims made on behalfof a federal organisationof the whole world during the height of the propaganda for "federal union" to obscure the fact that the principle of federation is the only form of association of different peoples which will create an international order without putting an undue strain on their legitimate desire for independance. Federalism is, of course, nothing but the application to international affairs of democracy, the
methode of peaceful change man has yet invented. But it is a democracy with defenitely limited powers.

F.A.Hayek

Ik kan het niet beter zeggen.

Schrijven dan, allez.

[Antoon]

Het hangt natuurlijk allemaal af van welk soort Wereldregering er zou komen. Een vrij en democratisch stelsel zoals in de Westerse Wereld? Een autoritair regime alla China? Of een gruweldictatuur zoals in Noord-Korea, Syrië of Iran?