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Your call to colonials

In Reply to: Let's put our heads together and start a school posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on June 28, 1999 at 14:07:42:

Samuel, my dear chap,

The premise of your entire programme is thinly veiled imperialism. Let us review this rather remarkable admission.

: "Personally, I am and always have been an anarchist; biased towards Schumacher-like "small is beautiful" communities based around voluntary co-operation; I believe the nation state to be an artificial and unwieldy construction."

: Any suggestions?

As Lord Acton so aptly noted, "absolute power corrupts absolutely". So here, the call for the abolishment of the nation-state is, by default, an insistence on a world-state. That is, an unopposed world rule under one leader. Is this not a clear admission of world colonial rule under another name? It is indeed the desire to install (and to former colonials to reinstall) a monarch.

When world rule becomes absolute, who will check the corruption?

Divest yourself from your colonial desires. Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world."

Robert

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