If or when full socialism is achieved, how would the world be organised. Would we have small co-operative communities envisaged by Aldous Huxley in Island and After Many a Summer (indirectly) or a world state envisaged by H G Wells in An Open Conspiracy and The Shape of Things to Come? Less likely and frankly, less appealing, would we have a federation of nations or states.
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Yes, as daymare has stated in order for it to be totally efficient, the world must have centralisation so that effective economic planning can be achieved. And I do see a federation of nations/states.
Food for thought is William Morris' (a 19th century socialist) book News From Nowhere. I am reading it now and it is really fascinating. It's a kind of mix between "looking into the future" and of simply good literature.
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I guess first progressive thing would be one democratic and centralized world state, rather than alliance of nation states, then gradual dying away of it.
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