The Pros And Cons Of The Abolishment Of Nationalism

The Abolishment of Nationalism will serve Humanity The abolishment of nationalism will lead towards the elimination of the nation-state concept, which in turn will pave way for the betterment of humanity. The arms race among different countries and the budget allocated to it by the first world countries only is sufficient to feed the poverty-stricken people of the world. Borders and geographic demarcations have superseded the humane values and the words like ‘patriotism’ have given birth to a new kind of selfish and self-centred approach that motivates countries and people living in them to work solely for their own benefit. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines nationalism as a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their

It gave way to the emergence of a complete war industry, the owners of which flourished their business by injecting the patriotic spirits among the masses, which ultimately gave birth to a large number of pseudo-patriotic people. In the year 2011, the population of planet earth became 7 Billion. It’s a staggering figure. Any calculator with mediocre computing ability will not be able to calculate the amount of food, water, clothing, shelter and medicines required for 7 billion souls. ''Capture the Wall Street'' Movement also hit the university campuses and streets of North America and the European Union in the year 2011.There were students with rising adrenaline and middle-aged people with falling energy levels in the protests being held against the spreading financial crisis of the world. It seems that no one is happy. Persons without jobs need jobs. Persons with jobs need better jobs. Everyone needs something but no one is getting what he or she wants. People in third world countries aspire day and night to break the chains of their socio-economic strata to join those in the top rankings of the Human Development Index and people already there are claiming that they are being deprived of their approved social benefits from the governments like health care and pensions. In the year 2010 alone,

Critics may raise a question here that replacing many states with one state is merely exposing the world population from a smaller menace to a larger one, but behold, this is not a Nation-State made up of groups of people living together in a close proximity for economics and culture. In fact, it will be the state that will comprise seven continents and all the people of the Earth. Moreover, since all the people of the world in this case will be living in the same country, there will be no need of military expenditures; instead, there will be internal policing. By recognizing the atrocities of the dreadful venom of the nation-state, people of the world should strive together for the creation of the Republic of Earth with zero military expenditure. A Republic where the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Russia, Libya, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Qatar, China, United States, Angola, Algeria and Brazil will be the collective property of the inhabitants of the Earth. By no means am I suggesting the revival of the socialist philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels because “There is nothing in socialism”, wrote Will Durant, “that a little age or a little money will not cure”. All I am suggesting is the creation of a state where all the smart