Alternative To the Nation State

The modern nation state is a product of 19 century industrial revolution. While an evolution took place Hegel in his history of philosophy, evolution of human though, culminated with 19 century though, this step by step culminated with Mark criticism of capitalism in his assumption economic and his analysis base on pseudo-empirical rule. His theory of value in the assumption the economic relationship is an objective behavior, distance of any emotional behavior, but the strength which Marx over saw in Capitalism, the idea human behavior is emotional and irrational.

The failure of capitalism (while they are many types of capitalism, but a significant) is the assumption, based on selfish individual. Our evolution path and medieval period individual will know in their life span 200 people, humans developed in small groups, the sense of community form the proximity. What we have left today is hierarchy which families related, power relationship, what is missing the underline reason for this relationship was in solidarity and mutual aid. The 19 century nation left with his building block, in his economy and governance base on hierarchy of power relationship, this relationship is a very subjective, not the Marxian phantasy of an objective relationship.

 Kropotkin, in his analysis in Mutual Aid the historical and evolutionary prospect is part of human condition having ingrain in evolution mutual-aid and solidarity. Some examples while in very small scale, despite the Anti-Antisemitism, inherent in European society, few individual, had the courage despised of the danger, save their fellow humans, estranges, Jews.

In the same token Kropotkin in Field, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow, given a blue print of a federal society, form by communes, cooperatives, cities and individuals. While the authoritarian form of governments have been try from, Fascist, Church state Rome or Russia, Iran, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, or China, the only historical example is the Anarchist Collectives in Spanish revolution of 1936, and today under spirit of Martin Buber in his Path in Utopia, and more recent time James Horrox in A Living Revolution, the fundamental flow in this movement, is a nationalist moment, taken away the most fundamental an missing part of the Human condition Solidarity, still, in Spain the CNT, or in USA, the IWW, FAU in Germany, many groups associated with AIT, the spirit of social justice, a human condition base on Solidarity and Mutual Aid, individual like Kevin Carson, which base in Proudhom, ideals Mutual Aid, other samples is Transition Cities Movements, with a local economy, never the less the ideal of an Artesian Economy described by Charles Heying in Brew to Bikes, Portland´s Artisan Economy, while still an Capitalist economy, but the exchange to local currency, give a beginning to a more justice society.

While revolutions can be dangerous and unpredictable, an action we as individual is to created our cooperatives and communes, living outside, and getting 99% of the population to participating in this economy base on Mutual Aid, Solidarity and Justices, small step can get great leap.