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Dear Members,

I saw a following posting of Mr. Holger Blasum in the forum of
The Grassroots World Government WWW Site
He proposes "Glosolib, Global Social Liberal Party." This is a kind of international party. We exchanged following mails. He has a following home page, http://www.ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de/~blasum/index.html

Yours sincerely,
Toshio Suzuki

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How about having global political parties ?
Holger Blasum
5/2/98

Dear Colleagues,

By this list, I've seen some proposals or sites proposing
a New World Order, Constitution, Movement and so on.
However, most of these sites try to attract ALL people, in
order to do so they have to be quite undecided about say
economic or environmental issues, as these are (luckily)
not very best regulated by constitutions.

Most people on the street however are far more interested
how globalization affects their job, their family etc. than
discussing elegant models for world government (which
of course are important, too).

To make both ends meet, I'd be interested if somebody
knows of or is interested in global political parties which
- not having to represent every political opinion - can lobby
for far more precise stakes, at the same time promote
political globalization (e.g. a conservative and a liberal global
party or a right-wing and left-wing party might support each
other over a constitutional issue whilst at the same
time having very different economic ideas).

So I have attached a draft proposal for a "Global Social
Liberal Party". Please note that I used SGML (a mark-up language,
the mother of HTML, cf. http://www.sil.org/sgml) to generate a
mark-up, that after modification, might be reused for other
competing parties (and competition as well as transparency
is what's wanted). Admittedly, in an ASCII editor or in this posting this
style looks rather ugly, but it also allows the insertion
of time-tags ("valid till") to ensure frequent revision.

I am well aware that many political movements founded by
individuals in my country in the last 150 years have turned out
disastrous, and so the actual contents of that proposal shall explicitly
be understood as brain-storming of a young individual in his
mid-twenties than as a well-considered proposal for a party,
what counts is only to illustrate the point of having different
competing parties than one all-encompassing movement.

In case you've heard of similar (and better) proposals
elsewhere, please let me know.

Best regards, Holger Blasum
(http://www.ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de/~blasum/index.html)

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Global Social Liberal Party

Glosolib

"No lo que fuimos ayer, sino que lo que vamos hacer manana,
nos reune en el Estado" (Not what we've been yesterday, but
what we'll do tomorrow unites us in the State).
(Jose Ortega y Gasset, La rebelion de la masas, 1938)
The &glosolib; sees that world unification is a process
which has been in progress since a long time. Although
there are well-functioning global organizations such as the
UNO, WTO, W3C and ISO and also well-functioning global
pressure groups campaigning for narrowly defined goals
such as Greenpeace, Amnesty International, WWF, Campaign
against landmines and there are organizations working for
a World Constitution such as CAMDUN, the World Grassroots
Movement and others there seems to be a vacuum right in the
center of this triangle: the lack of world-wide political
parties analogous to those on the national level. To date
even the composition of the supranational European Parliament
is defined by national party lists.

From a strictly formal point of view, &glosolib is comparable
to the Socialist International, only that &glosolib; is not an
association of national movements, but a direct association of
individuals. Another difference is that it comes from
outright "bourgeois" ideas and the aim of its programs is to
preserve the status quo of a free liberal competitive market
society with a rather "weak" government. &glosolib; believes
that this long-term goal is only possible by a minimum of
political and "social" human rights as well as the preservation
of nature which it promotes. &glosolib; does not believe itself
to be of any absolute or transcendental necessity, but thinks
its existence currently makes the world slightly nicer than
its non-existence which is enough justification for maintaining it.

1 May 1999

Adherence is open to any being credibly identifying with the
preamble, for human beings the minimum age level is 16 years.
Membership in other organizations is no obstacle to joining
the &glosolib;.

In the long term (when digital cash is more developed) a
voluntary donation of 0.02% of net income may be recommended,
but membership shall remain free to anybody unwilling to pay,
and those unwilling to pay shall not be discriminated against.

Local (city, county) groups can be founded by two or more members
in a club-like basis.

Regional (state, province, region) groups can be
founded by two or more members in a club-like basis. All members
of local groups in the region are members of the regional group.
The region can also include local groups which do not adhere
to the geographic region if the majority of local groups
within the region agrees.

As political parties are already strong on this level,
no national representation is planned.

Continental groups can be founded by two or
more members in a club-like basis. All members of regional groups
are members of a continental group. The continental group can also
include regional groups which do not adhere to the geographic
continent if the majority of regional groups within the continent
agrees.

A global group can be founded by two or more members in
a club-like basis. All members of continental groups are members
of the global group.

No.

The officially binding language for all documents relevant
to the global level is (American) English, encoding of all
documents is by ASCII or UNICODE, encryption by pgp, until a
majority of global members settles on other settings (e.g.
choosing all official languages of the UN etc.). All
geographical subgroups can decide on additional languages
or encodings themselves.

In the beginning, all decisions could be made by online voting.
One can experiment with various ways of online polling. In the long
run, alternative ways of voting have to be considered on the
importing for the majority not yet having internet access,
as well as ways to slow down plebiscites (maybe has to be repeated
twice or so in different years).

If local groups decide to do so, participation in local elections is ok.

Not strongly recommended.

It is absolutely not recommended to run for seats
in national parliaments, because &glosolib; doesn't want to
become too powerful. However, whereever it is possible national
"recommendative" polls on the national UN General Assembly's
delegate shall be encouraged at the same time of national
elections, anticipating that most governments who want to be
reelected or otherwise respected by their populace will
eventually be prone to consider the outcome of that poll.

To be considered.

e.g. General People's Assembly: Yes!

&glosolib; supports all governments working towards
an implementation of the International Declaration of human rights
(who has looked up the relevant UN conventions ?). Respecting
that societies are in different development statuses, &glosolib;
does not require each government to offer the same amount of
human rights right now, but rather wants to see measurable
gradual success in walking towards these goals. In addition to
tradritional Human Rights, &glosolib; is for the right of free
encryption (cf. Blue Ribbon Campaign).

Like the governments of many developing nations (e.g. China) &glosolib;
respects the need for minimum social security, see economic program.

&glosolib; encourages a universal right for emigration and
immigration. Free emigration is already reality for most societies
in the world. Concerning immigration it respects that at present
immigration rights are more complicated and may conflict
with local communities aiming to preserve an indigenous culture
(not only at the national, but also on the regional level), so a
process like the GATT shall be encouraged for the standardization
of immigration rights. People born in second generation shall
automatically receive the nationality of the local community if
they consent at age 18. The swapping of nationalities and achieving
of multinational status shall be simplified. While nations shall
be encouraged to liberalize immigration, regions and counties
with endangered indigenous cultures shall be allowed to restrict
immigration (e.g. requiring cultural assimilation) if considered
necessary. In analogy to Huxley's "Brave New World" there might
be left over anarchy refuges where the global state does NOT exist.

&glosolib; deems the preservation of nature to be within
mankind's long-term interests. Although some loss of species diversity
(Wilson EO, Diversity of Life, Belknap Press 1995) seems to be
inadvertible, &glosolib; hopes to contrain it by supporting the
maintenance of existing nature parks and strongly encourages to
realize the goals of the Jakarta Biodiversity Convention (1996?).
Excessive global pollution considered harmful (such as
overproduction of CFCs and CO2) has to be halted by adherence to
the decisions met a Rio 1992 and Berlin 1997.

Birth control programs are allowed. The right to migrate to protected
areas may be limitated.

&glosolib; supports the free interchange of ideas,
goods and persons. To encourage free interchange of goods, taxation
systems shall be unified.

Taxes shall primarily not be based on labor (as is currently the
case in most developed economies), but on energy taxes covering the
hidden costs of environmental destruction. Only for those people
with very high incomes and very high consumption may the present
taxation on incomes continue to exist.

This offers a good opportunity to kill "perverse subsidies" (for
agriculture, fossil fuels and nuclear energy, road transport, water,
fisheries estimated at 1.11 trillion $ in conventional subsidies
plus 0.785 trillion $ in environmental subsidies, Myers N 1998,
Nature 392:392-393) as well as to revise the current social security
systems which may be replaced by a global living allowance
for every human (including children) based on local living expenses
that allow a decent survival (e.g. $ 300-600 in most industrialized
countries, allowing variations for different local costs of living
and less in most developing countries depending on local price levels).
Those citizens paying more taxes than the amount of the allowance
will receive a tax allowance in equal height. Apart from the above-
mentioned living allowance, a universal education-allowance for
young people (e.g. about the average adults' income of 3 years' work
in most places, also valid for applying for private educational institutions
world-wide), and subsidies for handicapped people, as well as some
funding for basic science and governmental organs should be cared for.

When national governments are unable to secure the basic or other
allowances on a short-term basis, the IMF or similar organizations shall
provide part of the financing. If governments are unable to secure the
allowance on a medium-term basis, an institution like the World Bank shall
support the development of medium-termed programs. If governments
continue to be unable to secure this allowance for a long time and a
qualified majority within the country opposes that government, the
UN Security Council is allowed to take peaceful or military measures to
influence, alter or remove that government.

This should allow a low "state" (including local to global taxes) quota
of say only 30% (at the moment it is 40-50% in most industrialized nations).

Although this kind of social system will not necessarily solve the
global problem of unemployment (a streamlined global economy
needs less labor than fragmented national economies), the social
security created will free resources for the more adequate allocation
of labor.

Taking into account that societies can develop quite well without
a written constitution (e.g. UK or Imperial China), &glosolib;'s
main impetus is not writing elaborate constitutions, but rather to
create a democratic awareness for the potential of existing
institutions. However, it explicitly supports efforts for the creation
of an additional (UN) assembly for a global direct representative
vote (in a manner of the direct representative vote as in Japan's
lower house, most European parliaments (except UK), India, Russia,
Israel, South Africa etc.) such as the Global people's assembly (e.g.
cf. http://upf.org/thefed/legis/advoc.htm, don't know whether that is
the "best" proposal).

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Subject: From the World Government Institute
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:46:38 +0900
From: Toshio-Suzuki
To: blasum@mail.ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de
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WORLD GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE
Institute to Establish the World Government
http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~toshio-suzuki/
mailto:toshio-suzuki@ma3.justnet.ne.jp

Dear Mr. Holger Blasum,

I saw your mail in the forum of
"The Grassroots World Government WWW Site."
http://www.worldgov.org/index.htm
I also have a similar idea in a sense. My idea is the World Party. It
seeks the power at national level to elect the representatives to the
world parliament. I received a mail from German activist who also has
an idea based on the party. His mail is published in
"World Government Movement in Germany,"
http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~toshio-suzuki/move-germany.htm
in "Articles and Mails."
http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~toshio-suzuki/article.htm
I would like you to visit my site.
Yours sincerely,
Toshio Suzuki

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Subject: Antw: From the World Government Institute
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 19:33:51 +0200
From: "Blasum Holger"
To: toshio-suzuki@ma3.justnet.ne.jp

Suzuki-san,

Anata no denyu (?) ni motte wa doomo arigatoo...

I had known your site since your last postings since at last half a year, but it was nice to have a look at it again. Actually your organization and the British "Virtual Party" site was one of those inspiring to this idea.

However, what I have not found is a precise or rough economic program (except you'd roughly support LDP and US democrats, so that may put WorldParty a little bit more center from Glosolib which in Japanese measures might be a little more towards SP ?), but maybe I have overlooked it, if so tell me ?

Would you like to compete with Glosolib or other alternatives for global votes ? Howe about designing a SGML DTD (markup language elements) for political parties together, so that everybody can easily compare structured party programs ?

Allow me some other curious questions: How many members do you have (I openly declare to have none) ? How about renaming the "World Party" to "World Liberal Party" or "World Centrist Party" or something else more accurately describing its inclination ?

Best regards, Holger Blasum

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WORLD GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE
Institute to Establish the World Government
http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~toshio-suzuki/
mailto:toshio-suzuki@ma3.justnet.ne.jp

Dear Mr. Holger Blasum,

Thank you for a reply. Let me answer to your questions. About the economic program, there is no concrete program. I want to collaborate with you. But our opinion is not sufficiently same to act together. So I want to stay in contact with you. Your idea and mine have something common.
Actually, I am a member of
UWFJ, United World Federalist of Japan
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/uwfj/
and the World Party. UWFJ was founded in 1948 and now has 5,000 members. The World Party was founded in February 1998 and has only one member, me. I think I must compromise to continue my work.
As for SGML which you propose, I am sorry, I do not know it. I want to publish your proposal and mail in the "Mailing List," "Conference Room" of my site. Some people will know your proposal. If there is no objection within few days, I will publish our mails there.

Yours sincerely,
Toshio Suzuki