Time to Replace Globalization and Privatizations with Localization toward Democracy

Compiled by Paul Chen

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Privatization and Globalization is taking humanity on a path of greed-driven self-destruction. It is vital that humanity avert this path of self-destruction. Localization provides a context for re-affirming both the political and economic context of democracy. "Privatization is a vulgar miss-characterization of the true definition of the word private. There is nothing private about robbing and looting public's private properties of nations or individuals, such as farms, industries, businesses, natural resources and historical heritage", stated Bahram Maskanian, who is a Persian American social activist and essayist.

"These apparent mass international robberies are aimed at taking away ownership and control from the public and handing it over to nation-less Corporations, which can be referred to as the United States of Nation-Less Corporations or the European Union of Nation-Less Corporations."

"The word 'private' means: what is secluded from the sight, presence, or intrusion of others, such as a private house or a private garden. Private means what has been designed or intended for one's exclusive use, a private room, or confined to an individual, a personal private service and or privilege, private thoughts and opinions, " Mr Maskanian also states.

"The word 'private' also means: not available for public or government use, control, or participation; a private club, a private party. Belonging to a particular person or persons, as opposed to the public or the government. Private property, conducted and supported primarily by private individuals or by a non-governmental agency or nation-less corporate entity," further elaborates.

The word "Globalization" is intended to sound like it is about bringing the world together in some sort of constructive manner when in practice Globalization means to consolidation of the Earth as a marketplace of greed-driven exploitation.

Globalization and privatization are intended to mislead the public under the banner of the safeguarding of personal freedoms for everyone across national boundaries, when Globalization and privatization actually operate to undermine personal freedoms, under the unaccountable operation of "nation-less" corporations. Globalization and privatization are mechanism to make the super rich even richer through systematized exploitation which spreads worsening poverty

Privatization of our Earth operates in reality, is the legalized robbery of public resources and assets, and steals from the Earth as a common endowment of all humanity.

Privatizing government services as well as resources therefore corrupts the functioning out a responsible government in a democracy by unethically transferring the control of government services and resources for the commercial profit of elites.

The government is supposed to be formed by the people for the people to provide specific services for the citizens of the society from which its authority and existence stems from.

	Capitalism is Not Democracy is a book for further reading on this subject.

Bahram Maskanian concludes from his research that, "Globalization and privatization offers absolutely no benefit to any community it invades. The absolute consequence of privatization and Globalization is the destruction of democracy and in particular, local communities' natural resources and assets."

Unlike "Globalization" and privatization, 'localization' is a political and economic system, which encourages and supports local self-sufficiency and the spreads democracy, by enforcing the ability of communities to control their own economic destiny. Localization is basically an economic form of popular sovereignty which relies on the ability of representative political legislatures to be able to represent their communities local interest free of greed-driven corporate coercion.

The book entitled Capitalism is Not Democracy further explores the undermining effects of capitalism against democratic societal development relative to "Globalization".

Globalization is occurring increasingly at the expense of social, environmental and labour improvements, and is causing rising inequality for most of the world. "Localization, by contrast, is a process that reverses the trend of globalization by affirming 'the local', as the basis for the development of a dynamic and vibrant democracy:, Colin Hines states in his critical essay entitled "Time to Replace Globalization with Localization"

"The policies bringing about localization are those which increase control of the economy by communities and nation states. The result should be an increase in community cohesion, a reduction in poverty and inequality, and an improvement in livelihoods, social infrastructure and environmental protection, and hence an increase in the all-important sense of security," further states Mr. Hines.

Bibliographic Reference:

Bahram Maskanian's representation on Localization versus Privatization and Colin Hines' "Time to Replace Globalization with Localization".

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