Chapter 5.5.

Chapter 5: Globalization of Planned Economy

5.5. The Council for Grand-Zonal Economic Cooperation

Since the World Commonwealth is not an integrated entity like a single nation state, world economic planning encompasses economic coordination among the five Grand-Zones, which are the regional groupings of the Zones that constitute the World Commonwealth. Such Grand-Zonal economic cooperation is extremely important in a sustainable planned economy as an alternative to capitalist commercial trade.

In essence, a sustainable planned economy is a global economic system based on a world economic plan, in which individual Zonal planned economies and cross-Zonal economic cooperation are organically interrelated.

In that sense, Grand-Zones are important units as economic cooperation spheres, and a working organization such as the Council for Grand-Zonal Economic Cooperation must be established, separate from the World Economic Planning Organization, to handle such inter-Zonal economic cooperation and maintain constant economic cooperation relationships.

To give a specific example, in the case of automobiles, the central Zone within each Grand-Zone produces them according to the guidelines set out in the world economic plan, and they are shared within the Grand-Zone. As a result, automobile manufacturers will no longer compete with each other for global market share, and production activities will be completed within each Grand-Zone.

However, this is not a rigid rule, and in places like Africa where there are no independent automobile manufacturers - although of course the possibility of developing independent manufacturers is greater than under a capitalist economy - the existence of cooperative relationships beyond Grand-Zonal boundaries, such as sourcing from neighboring Europe, is not denied.

Another important role of the Grand-Zones will be economic cooperation in the field of food and agriculture. Communist food production is based on each Zone being self-sufficient, without relying on trade, and in reality communism makes this possible, but the state of agricultural development and production volume are also affected by geographical conditions and weather, and imbalances cannot be completely avoided, so cooperative relationships in which  Grand-Zones that share a common food culture can share scarce products are essential.

A World Food and Agriculture Organization will be established as a specialized agency to coordinate such cooperative relationships globally. This will take over the work of the current UN agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), but this agency will remain a coordinating body, and the actual practical aspects of cooperation will be carried out by Food and Agriculture Councils established in each Grand-Zone.

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Chapter 5.4.

Chapter 5: Globalization of Planned Economy

5.4. The World Economic Planning Organization

The practical organization for the global planned economy is the World Economic Planning Organization. This organization is equivalent to the headquarters of the Economic Planning Conferences, which are the planning organizations for each Zone of the World Commonwealth. When the global planned economy is finally established, it will be a systematic organization in which the economic plans of each Zone are formulated within the overall framework of the world economic plan formulated by this organization.

This World Economic Planning Organization is positioned as a specialized organization of the World Commonwealth, but it is not a bureaucratic administrative organization like the current UN organizations, but a deliberative organization that formulates joint plans for production enterprises themselves, just like the Economic Planning Conference of each Zone. 

Its structure is also similar to the Economic Planning Conferences of each Zone. In other words, the executive body (The Senior Board of Directors) that is responsible for the decision-making of the World Economic Planning Organization is mainly composed of representatives of the production business associations, which is the global associations of production business organizations in the environmentally burdensome industrial sector that is the target of the planned economy.

There is no organization equivalent to a production business association in a capitalist economy, but if we were to cite existing analogues, we could imagine international industry associations such as the World Steel Association or the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, etc.

Under a capitalist system, such international industry associations are merely organizations representing the international interests of each industry, and coordinating production activities themselves would be considered an international cartel and would be prohibited. However, in a global planned economy, production business associations are not simply industry associations, but is truly the leading organization of the global planned economy.

The world economic plan that the production business associations formulate after deliberation through the World Economic Planning Organization must then be deliberated at the General Assembly of the World Commonwealth (the World Commons' Convention), the representative and decision-making body of the people of the World Commonwealth. As a result, the adopted world economic plan binds each Zone with normativeness equivalent to a treaty and becomes the standard guideline for economic planning at the Zonal level.

👉The table of contents so far is here.

👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.