👉The table of contents so far is here.
Chapter 6: Planned economy and political system
6.4. Constituent units of the World Commonwealth
At the end of this chapter, we will summarize the outline of the planned economy system in the World Commonwealth as a whole. As already mentioned, the World Commonwealth is not a centralized single sovereign entity like a world government, but has a decentralized structure.
The basic constituent unit of the World Commonwealth is the Zone, which is a political unit equivalent to a traditional country, and is also a planned economic entity within the framework of the world economic plan. For example, the Zone of the Germany is both a political unit of Germany and a planned economic entity within the Germany domain.
At the level of these Zones, an Economic Planning Conference is established as a single economic planning organization, and economic plans within each Zone are formulated in line with the economic plan set by the World Economic Planning Organization. There is no complete hierarchical command relationship between the WEPO and the Zonal Economic Planning Conference, but the latter is like a trustee of the former.
A global planned economy not only involves planning of vertical relationships, but also economic cooperation as horizontal connections, and it is rational for such economic cooperation to be carried out on the basis of interrelated regions that bring together neighboring Zones that share geographical and cultural commonalities.
Grand-Zones are interrelated regional cooperation bodies for such neighboring Zones. Grand-Zones themselves are not planned economic entities, but mutual economic cooperation entities that supplement planned economies, and so do not have their own economic planning institutions.
There are various ways to divide Grand-Zones, but I have long proposed dividing the world into five: Pan-African-South Atlantic Zone, Pan-European-Siberian Zone, Pan-American-Caribbean Zone, Pan-Eastern Asia-Oceania Zone, and Pan-Western Asia-Indian Ocean Zone (see my article).
Such economic cooperation bodies among linked regions still exist today, but they often morph into economic competition between the regions and, in the worst cases, turn into exclusive economic blocs that can lead to international war. On the other hand, multinational capital that runs rampant globally across borders is incompatible with this kind of linked regional economic cooperation.
A Grand-Zone in a global planned economy is not a competitive unit, nor is it a sphere of international industrial division like the former Comecon led by the former Soviet Union. Rather, it can be said to be a unit unique to a global planned economy that specializes in mutually complementary economic cooperation.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
