I share your frustration and angst Probably more so than most. And indeed people are engaged in thought experiments to find a way out. I do not wish to diminish your idea, there is surely a realistic solution somewhere.
But Monaco, Lichenstein, Singapore only exist because the patron state, finds them useful, and permits it.
I share your frustration and angst Probably more so than most. And indeed people are engaged in thought experiments to find a way out. I do not wish to diminish your idea, there is surely a realistic solution somewhere.
But Monaco, Lichenstein, Singapore only exist because the patron state, finds them useful, and permits it.
A kind of off the wall example as it doesn't involve a state, but it embodies an example.
The Old USSR had seven banks and a central bank.The seven banks serviced the seven trusts which comprised the United Socialists Soviets The trusts were formed along lines of resource and production. A trust for mining, a trust for labor, a a trust for agriculture, a trust for industry, and a trust for human labor (KGB).
These trusts needed resources provided by other trusts, but payment was either in kind, or as a finality by Rubles. Ruble payments were handled by the GosBank. The GosBank was the only bank authorized to operate outside the Soviet Union, and it had a branch in Paris.
A holder of rubles could present it at the window of the GosBank and demand gold. Gold was the USSR atandards of value, .9851 grams fine gold equaled one ruble. A reduction in the gold on hand meant a reduction in the rubles in circulation (a 100% gold standard) and worsening the permanent depression.
Anyway the chances of a city successfully seceding are as likely as man becoming pregnant via sexual intercourse.
The state would not allow it, especially when it operates as sovereign, and the laws of the state don't apply. To make compacts with cities outside of the state, is as feasible as Arkansas making a treaty with Putin. or China. The only way that foreign companies, and there are more of them than most people realize, can do business in the U.S.A is because they either have incorporated in a state, as a subsidiary of the parent, or they have made a contract with a middle man at the port of entry.
Here is a simple solution. As Federal Judges are appointed by the Senate, Not the House, the House doesn't even interview them, the Senate can remove them for cause,and there is plenty of cause.
The reason that the Senate hasn't moved to do so is either ignorance (doubtful) or political fear, fear of push back, fear that the Republicans will do the same to all Democratic appointed judges. Fear of upsetting the donor class who are responsible for the judges sitting where they sit.
Whatever the reason, the cause is : Fear, cowardice, maybe even complicity and corruption. The three C''s of politics
Very interesting history. You know your stuff. As Chris Hedges calls it, the corporate state does all these things. The forefathers called them 'imperio in imperium' or state within a state. That is indeed what they were back when we had factory towns. The USSR was effectively an upscaled factory town. If we turn all these corporations into joint stock companies and cities own shares in them, that would be new states forming. I think it's doable. It just takes a will and a way. But something has to be done.
Lenin referred to the USSR as State Capitalism, the corporate state. I had respect for Hedges and Chomsky,till they and the old "tankie" left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie proved to be pro Putin. Obliguely because being anticolonial and opposed to the defense of Ukraine, you are essentially being pro Putin Most likely because the only media that would carry them and give them air time is Russia today, but most of them are old style Maxrists and apparently bought into the notion that communism is socialism and that
capitalism is the root of colonialism and thus all evil, and that the only reason we have wars is because industrial capitalists need them to keep the engine going. Thus ignoring the thousands years old history of mankind that wars occur when one nation or man wants to steal the resources of another.
Then it got worse with religion and ideology being an excuse for war, and the reason for that is internal security, as long as there is a competing idea on your border, you are under threat so the way to make the world safe for you, is to force your neighbor into submission. Humm that includes the current political climate where the fascist right is trying to force us all into submission.
By the way a Joint Stock Company is a corporation. only the word corporation did not exist at the time the King awarded letters patent to groups of adventurers, which is what they called stock holders then.
A group of wealthy London merchants got together and petitioned King James, to grant them a charter as a joint stock company, it was called the Virginia Company of London. They were the adventurers who financed the first shipment of gentry and indentured servants to Virginia.
At that time Virginia was the name given to the eastern seaboard from the failed Roanoke Colony to Maine. The puritans whom some call pilgrims (they called themselves saints, and they were only 32 of the 102 manifested on the Mayflower.,set sail for. their destination was the Hudson river.
The point is that a corporation is just another name for a joint stock company. Like investor or stockholder is another name for adventurer
I share your frustration and angst Probably more so than most. And indeed people are engaged in thought experiments to find a way out. I do not wish to diminish your idea, there is surely a realistic solution somewhere.
But Monaco, Lichenstein, Singapore only exist because the patron state, finds them useful, and permits it.
A kind of off the wall example as it doesn't involve a state, but it embodies an example.
The Old USSR had seven banks and a central bank.The seven banks serviced the seven trusts which comprised the United Socialists Soviets The trusts were formed along lines of resource and production. A trust for mining, a trust for labor, a a trust for agriculture, a trust for industry, and a trust for human labor (KGB).
These trusts needed resources provided by other trusts, but payment was either in kind, or as a finality by Rubles. Ruble payments were handled by the GosBank. The GosBank was the only bank authorized to operate outside the Soviet Union, and it had a branch in Paris.
A holder of rubles could present it at the window of the GosBank and demand gold. Gold was the USSR atandards of value, .9851 grams fine gold equaled one ruble. A reduction in the gold on hand meant a reduction in the rubles in circulation (a 100% gold standard) and worsening the permanent depression.
Anyway the chances of a city successfully seceding are as likely as man becoming pregnant via sexual intercourse.
The state would not allow it, especially when it operates as sovereign, and the laws of the state don't apply. To make compacts with cities outside of the state, is as feasible as Arkansas making a treaty with Putin. or China. The only way that foreign companies, and there are more of them than most people realize, can do business in the U.S.A is because they either have incorporated in a state, as a subsidiary of the parent, or they have made a contract with a middle man at the port of entry.
Here is a simple solution. As Federal Judges are appointed by the Senate, Not the House, the House doesn't even interview them, the Senate can remove them for cause,and there is plenty of cause.
The reason that the Senate hasn't moved to do so is either ignorance (doubtful) or political fear, fear of push back, fear that the Republicans will do the same to all Democratic appointed judges. Fear of upsetting the donor class who are responsible for the judges sitting where they sit.
Whatever the reason, the cause is : Fear, cowardice, maybe even complicity and corruption. The three C''s of politics
Very interesting history. You know your stuff. As Chris Hedges calls it, the corporate state does all these things. The forefathers called them 'imperio in imperium' or state within a state. That is indeed what they were back when we had factory towns. The USSR was effectively an upscaled factory town. If we turn all these corporations into joint stock companies and cities own shares in them, that would be new states forming. I think it's doable. It just takes a will and a way. But something has to be done.
Lenin referred to the USSR as State Capitalism, the corporate state. I had respect for Hedges and Chomsky,till they and the old "tankie" left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie proved to be pro Putin. Obliguely because being anticolonial and opposed to the defense of Ukraine, you are essentially being pro Putin Most likely because the only media that would carry them and give them air time is Russia today, but most of them are old style Maxrists and apparently bought into the notion that communism is socialism and that
capitalism is the root of colonialism and thus all evil, and that the only reason we have wars is because industrial capitalists need them to keep the engine going. Thus ignoring the thousands years old history of mankind that wars occur when one nation or man wants to steal the resources of another.
Then it got worse with religion and ideology being an excuse for war, and the reason for that is internal security, as long as there is a competing idea on your border, you are under threat so the way to make the world safe for you, is to force your neighbor into submission. Humm that includes the current political climate where the fascist right is trying to force us all into submission.
By the way a Joint Stock Company is a corporation. only the word corporation did not exist at the time the King awarded letters patent to groups of adventurers, which is what they called stock holders then.
A group of wealthy London merchants got together and petitioned King James, to grant them a charter as a joint stock company, it was called the Virginia Company of London. They were the adventurers who financed the first shipment of gentry and indentured servants to Virginia.
At that time Virginia was the name given to the eastern seaboard from the failed Roanoke Colony to Maine. The puritans whom some call pilgrims (they called themselves saints, and they were only 32 of the 102 manifested on the Mayflower.,set sail for. their destination was the Hudson river.
The point is that a corporation is just another name for a joint stock company. Like investor or stockholder is another name for adventurer