Democratic globalization

Democratic globalization is a movement towards an institutional system that expands globalization by giving world citizens a say in world organizations. This would, in their view, by-pass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological NGOss, cults and mafias.

These proponents state that democratic globalization's purpose is:

to expand globalization and make people closer and more united
to have it reach all fields of activity and knowledge, not only the economic one, even if that one is crucial to develop the world well-being.
to give world citizens a democratic access and a say to those global activities.

Supporters of this globalization movement draw a distinction between their movement and the one most popularly known as the "anti-globalization" movement, claiming that their movement avoids ideological agenda about economics and social matters. Democratic globalization supporters state that the choice of political orientations should be left to the world citizens, via their participation in world democratic institutions. Some proponents in the "anti-globalization movement" do not necessarily disagree with this position. For example, George Monbiot, normally associated with the "anti-globalization" movement (who prefers the term Global Justice Movement) in his work Age of Consent has proposed a similar democratic reforms of most major institutions, suggesting direct democratic elections of such bodies, and suggests a form of "world government".

Democratic globalization, proponents claim, would be reached by creating democratic global institutions and /or making evolve "international" ones, controlled by the nation-states, into global ones controlled by those world citizens. The movement proposes to start by building a limited number of democratic global institutions in charge of a few crucial fields of common interest. The long term goal of the movement is that these institutions would federate later into a full-fledged democratic world government.

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