The World Needs More San Franciscos

   The only problem for serious progressive thinkers in the 21st century is the same as that  during the heydays of bourgeois-controlled industrialised nation-states in the 18th to the 20th centuries: how to transfer a significant part of the wealth of the class controlling capital, technologies and industries into the hands of workers and the poor who were forced by the top-down control of riches by the governing class to sell their labor cheaply. Now instead of a narrow-minded bourgeois class in various developed nation-states, we have an international-corporation class operating globally possessing an abundant supply of capital and technologies and still there is no method in the economic systems, either national as in the past or now global, to increase the wealth of workers and the poor significantly in either developed or underdeveloped countries. The only conclusion possible is that the capitalist system in its present form is incapable of a just distribution of wealth anywhere even though aggregate wealth has steadily increased worldwide for 3 centuries and is continuing now for a 4th century.

   The one capitalistic system that escaped to a significant degree from the dilemma during the 19th and 20th centuries was the United States. While businessmen supported by politicians in European nation-states were selling the natural resources of poor countries in their colonial empires in rich countries at enormous profits, the United States created 37 completely new sovereign states in its union that it equipped with the same highly developed political, legal, financial and educational systems that were already working profitably and orderly in its 13 older and advanced states in the east. In 1837 a sailing vessel from Boston in the state of Massachusetts sailed into the great bay at San Francisco and there were  just a few people there herding cattle.  San Francisco was booming in 1867 and by 1937 it was as highly developed as rich cities in Europe. Underdeveloped countries cannot develop economically in a way that will distribute more wealth to their poor unless they import into their states a complete new advanced political system as did the 37 newly admitted American states by joining the American union. There must be a United States of the World in the future or there can never be some new more expansive global economic system where wealth is distributed more justly.

Read a 2-act play by Daniel McNeill (performed off-broadway in 2015}, "The Body Is a Legal Drug", at: usoftheworld.com/theater1
Read a complete book showing the destiny of the Us to become a worldwide union of states at:
usoftheworld.com/history