Once globalization meant that anyone with enough political, military or economic power could cross state borders to pursue some interest. It was always violent. The local political power in the foreign state had to be forced to sanction legally the foreign intervention. The politicians in the state where the invasion began used military and diplomatic powers to aid their investors to install their corporations in foreign states. Profits were made and portions of them were enjoyed by a few citizens in the penetrated state, natural resources were exported and advanced foreign industrial technologies were introduced to increase the general wealth. We see now that immigrants from poor countries are also pushing their way into foreign states violently to pursue their economic interests against the interests of local citizens. Already 50% of the people in North America have moved to a state where they were not born for some economic interest. Scarcity and violence are the motors of all economic life. The struggle once went on traditionally in economies within the borders of states. Now it goes on across all state borders globally. Terrorism is a third form of globalization. It also crosses any border to pursue its interests. It is against the peaceful life of any people in any state. It carries the logic of globalization to the limit. It is pure violence and fights scarcity worldwide for no one.
International businessmen, immigrants and everyone else need to have double citizenship in a worldwide union of states to fight scarcity and rationalize the violence inherent in globalization. Citizenship must become worldwide since citizenship in just one state is no longer safe from violence from global forces with the power to cross international borders. Why should not everyone have the right to live anywhere in any state worldwide with full rights of citizenship simply by entering a state and taking up residence? International corporations enjoy such rights, immigrants act as though they already possess them and terrorists with their bombs and their kalashnikov rifles have expropriated the right to go anywhere across any national border and kill anyone. Everyone needs to be a citizen of both a worldwide union of states and a traditional state. Unless we all have the right to go anywhere worldwide to pursue our interests, businessmen, immigrants and terrorists will continue to arrogate the right for themselves alone and the violence of globalization will continue uncontrolled.
Daniel McNeill
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