Social Democracy - The Current Worldwide Political Renaissance

Social Democracy

The Current Worldwide Political Renaissance

Stes de Necker

INTRODUCTION

If there can be one positive result from the current spade of armed conflicts around the world, it is that majority of the world’s nations are getting much more politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive.

Personal safety and security, mutual cultural respect, religious tolerance and economic development, have created an unprecedented interest in International Affairs and ‘Homeland Government’. 

  

The failure of historical outdated socio-political and economic systems, have left many disillusioned with the ability of Governments to successfully govern their countries.

Communism, socialism, capitalism, nationalism and all the other –ism’s have failed dismally to secure peace and stability in the world.

A global ‘renaissance’ is busy taking place while many political leaders and international advisers are to skeptic to acknowledge the political turmoil and dissatisfaction that is currently taking place. Demonstrations, civil unrest and protest marches are prevalent throughout the Western and Eastern world.

The reason why so many political leaders and Heads of State are (seemingly) deliberately avoiding these realities, is because it undoubtedly represents the greatest threat to the current organized powers and the international political and economic power bases.

Globalization and membership of the ‘Global Village’ have created a ‘Global Governance’ where influential international role players have secured their own unique Socio- Economic and political niches in an integrated international power-base.

Centuries old Colonialism and Imperial domination has been replaced by a system of ‘Global Government’.

THE POLITICAL RENAISSANCE 

At the heart of the political renaissance lie the natural human needs for dignity, basic human rights, equality, independence and religious freedom.

The exclusion of these basic human rights have flamed almost all the conflicts ravaging the world at the moment.

Anti Western sympathy became the main focus of many terrorist organisations worldwide and contributed much to the intensification and turbulence caused by this political awakening.

The French Revolution of 1789/99, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia of 1917, the Fascist assumption of power in Italy in 1922, the Nazi seizure of the German state in 1933, the political awakening in China, passive resistance in India, and the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century, all reflected the politics of mass dissatisfaction and resistance.

Regardless of the final results, dissatisfaction will develop political and social consciousness and the participation in massive political and social action aimed at bringing about a major shift and change, and revolution in the political, social and economic realms.

The youth in particular are restless and resentful and the revolutionary ethos they embody is a political time-bomb.

With the exception of Europe, Japan and America, the rapidly growing ‘generation gap’ between the older and more mature population and the expanding 25-year-old-and-under age bracket, is creating a huge mass of impatient young people.

Their potential revolutionary reaction to the current state of affairs is likely to emerge from among the millions of students concentrated in the intellectually “tertiary level” educational institutions of developing countries.

There are currently between 80 and 130 million “college” students worldwide and these millions of students are potential ‘revolutionaries-in-waiting’

The only effective response can come from a genuinely committed vision of global solidarity.

A NEW SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-POLITICAL ORDER

The need for a new world socio-economic and socio-political structure, that can secure peace, advance human rights and provide the conditions for economic progress, has never seemed more appropriate than right now.

The most difficult issues facing national governments today are international in nature.

Global warming, global financial crisis, ‘global war on terror’, has led to the global political awakening and is rapidly expanding, as the social, political and economic inequalities and disparities of the past are becoming more and more outdated and impractical.