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The World State
The Revolution Continues
By Pedro Muniz
Leaflet
A New Organizational Era
Adapted from a newspaper article from
Diário de Pernambuco, 22nd May 2007, page
A9), by León Costa.
The endemic, century long, world crisis rich countries. In the very Global Village!
is now the biggest and most serious of all
In 2005 the World produced US$58
times. And it can get even worse.
trillion. Maybe 100 or 150 trillion in 10 to
More than 7,0 billion people, 4 billion 20 years.
of those, destitute – soon, may be 6 or 8
Who will manage this amazing
billion.
economy? The bankrupt national and
War, crime, environmental degradation, international structures of today? Those
energy crisis. It is a huge genocide which who cause the problems that populate the
kills 120 million children in a decade –
governments of the whole planet, from
more than 1 billion in 50 years.
Bush to Ahmadinejad, from Blair to
Akihito, from Chávez to Putin?
On the other hand, the G7. The 7
richest countries in the world alone
The bad national and international
dominate 62% of the world economy,
organization already causes the most
leaving 38% for the other 184 countries to incredible waste. Excessive military
“die amongst themselves”.
expenditure consume US$800 billion a
Their 500 largest companies dominate year. Corruption wastes another US$1,6
trillion. In 50 years, they will together
none less than 48% of this market.
The most perverse structure since the devour US$280 trillion – or 20 times the
IGP of the USA, the biggest world power.
European empires. A brave
denouncement, neo-imperialism of the
The amount of the waste of only one
year would be sufficient to solve ALL of
the world problems and develop ALL
countries!
It is no use to just change government
every 4 or 5 years. It is impossible to
govern today with old political structures.
The crisis is in the organization of the
peoples: - obsolete.
The only solution: the organizational
evolution of the State, of the international
order and the economic systems. A new
world political and economic order.
It is impossible to keep the oppressive
political and economic architectures of the
past.
The national State can already evolve
from Three Powers to five, seven or more
deconcentrated powers.
From a disintegrated Federation to an
integrated one.
From an Indirect Democracy, in which
the people is only worth at the time they
are voting, to a Systemic Democracy, which
involves all the parts of the State of their
daily affairs.
From individualistic or charismatic (or
idiotic?) heads of State to collegial,
congressional or chamber governments.
From corruption and administrative chaos,
to a modern and efficient regimens of
public management.
New State designs will soon appear.
The International Order has become
fragile and timid, but it moves towards a
new order.
A World State which is being formed
since the 19th century has grown in the
20th century with the UN and hundred of
international organizations and it becomes
irresistible in the 21th century.
“Cease all that the ancient muse sings, for
other higher merit has arisen.”(Camões, in
‘Os Lusíadas’).
New organizational profiles can and
should be created thanks to the evolutions
of management and the 20th century
technologies.
State theoreticians, political scientists,
sociologists, economists, philosophers and
heads of state, even students, can and
should create new kinds of State and a new
World Order.
You too can create one. Take part!
We can believe in it!
The Theoretical Basis
Plato and Aristotle (Antiquity)
Bacon, Descartes, Rousseau and
Jefferson
(16th, 17th and 18th centuries)
Darwin, Marx and Lincoln (19th century)
Weber, Bertalanffy and McLuhan (20th
century)
Geniuses, Theories and Revolutions
Darwin must be applied to global politics.
It cannot continue so behind.”
While in the course of Sociology, in
It was more than 30 years of research.
the early 1970's, he absolves the analyses
Since 1970, when the author became
of Marx on the evolution of societies and
enthusiastic by the theory of Marshall
those of Weber in his structuralist
McLuhan – the masterly study of
technological media and their effects on approach.
society. In it, he discovers the great
Two valuable scientific tools for
implications for the evolution of world political analysis. It was necessary to apply
politics.
Darwin, Marx and McLuhan to politics,
the rich evolutionist concept to politics,
In the late 1960's, while studying
Medicine, he deepens his contact with the in a single manner, innovative. It would
be necessary a new conceptual revolution.
theories of Darwin and his works “The
Evolution of Species” and “The Evolution
New concepts of political and
of Man”.
organizational evolution for the people.
A first evolutionist passion amidst
Next, in Law School, the author
several worries: dictatorship in Brazil, the searches for legal tools for an analysis of
Vietnam war, the nuclear race of the
the State: the concepts of the General
superpowers, worsening of world poverty. Theory of the State, Constitutional Law,
Muniz constantly repeated to his study Political Science and International Law.
colleagues, “The evolutionist theory of
The theoretical basis for the political
-Are political organizations from
aspects were sought in Antiquity, in the previous centuries fit to manage the
works of Plato and Aristotle, and in the mega societies and mega economy of
Modern Age, mainly in the work of
today?
Rousseau on Democracy. And strongly
-Is parliamentarianism, of feudal
in Jefferson, in his valuable vision on the roots, adequate for the 21st century?
need of continuous evolution of the
-Are the three powers, of the 18th
forms of government.
century, adequate for the nuclear age
Muniz rescues this vision,
and the space conquest?
unfortunately unknown or overseen,
-Is indirect democracy, from time of
and applies it in his studies. He adopts the horse cart, adequate for the Global
the unmatchable concept by Lincoln on Village of instant communication – TV,
Democracy, so forgotten, but so up-to- radio, telephone, computers, the
date.
Internet and satellites around the planet?
In all, the decisive influence of
The logics of Aristotle and Bacon
Descartes, through his methodological (the father of modern science) provides
skepticism, the systematic doubt for the the logical answers:
advancement of sciences, which Muniz
uses in extremis with many questions: •THE COMTEMPORARY WORLD
-If the Economy has become global, NEEDS CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL
ORGANIZATIONS.
should we not also need a global
government?
•IT NEEDS NEW FORMS OF STATE
AND GOVERNMENT.
•IT NEEDS A NEW WORLD ORDER..
The theoretical basis also
incorporates concepts from cybernetics,
from Organizational Contingency and
Development. The General Systems
Theory of Bertalanffy, gives support the
approach that Muniz adopts of the State
as a “global profile”, that is, a system,
but of an organizational nature.
The theoretical convergence comes
about in the critical works on the State
and Institutional Order: “The PostModern State” and “The World State”.
The Research
The School of Medicine at UPE and Rua
Senador Dantas [Senador Dantas Street],
the place of the old headquarters of the
ONU-OENG, Rio de Janeiro.
The Law School of Recife (UFPE), from
two views.
The old and the new headquarters of
Diário de Pernambuco [Pernambuco
Daily], the oldest newspaper in
circulation in Latin America.
The Old Organization versus the New
Reality
The research took over 30 years.
Besides over a thousand books in the
specific field of study, more than 20
thousand cut-outs from Brazilian and
foreign newspaper and magazines were
collected, including reports, news,
analyses and scientific articles.
A unique collection which, in 2006,
makes the newspaper Diário de
Pernambuco write an article about it.
Without this support, mainly from
Diário de Pernambuco, who opened his
archives and made available information
from a period of almost two centuries,
Muniz admits this research would be
impossible.
The collection was considerably
enlarged from the 1990's with the
Internet. It is now possible to access the
main newspapers in the world.
The access to global information
becomes infinite from resources such as
the search engine Google and the virtual
encyclopedia Wikipedia. Invaluable
tools, any information is available on the
monitor screen in a fraction of a second.
It is also possible to have access to
the archives of organizations such as the
UN, its specialized agencies, the IMF and
the World Bank; national governments,
central banks and universities;
transnational enterprises; important
foundations, institutes and NGOs, such
as SIPRI and Greenpeace, among others.
The methodology used was precisely
this: to contrast and compare the
theories and doctrines which are in the
books about the State and its
organizations, with the practical reality
of the people.
The logics of Aristotle and Bacon and
the methodological doubt of Descartes
are the basis of the process.
When it is said that the Federation,
the three powers and the Presidentialism
are efficient for the management of
people, the Doubt imposes: is it TRUE?
When it says that the Representative
Regime realizes Democracy, does it do
that? Or does it generate oppression?
From the studies of Darwin, Marx and
McLuhan, in different fields, Muniz
considers that the evolutionist concept
must be applied to the political order of
the people.
The present models of political
organization – the Three Powers,
Presidentialism, Federation, Monarchy,
etc. - come from centuries ago. Are they
suitable for the present world, the new
realities, the new societies?
Based in the existing theory and the
global reality, the conclusion states that
the present political organization of the
people, in the international context and
within the countries, is dated, in
disagreement with the new global society
which has been formed.
It is not suitable for today and it is
bankrupt. It is the cause of this huge
global crisis. It must be substituted by
new types of organization.
But the great contribution must not
come only from the politicians, scientists,
businessmen, journalists, teachers and
students.
All citizens must participate, create,
suggest new models of organization for
the States and for a new World Order.
This will be the solution for this huge
crisis which involves the people and for
the construction of a new civilization.
The Environment
Map of the North-east of Brazil,
the poorest region in the country.
Small town of Queimadas, Paraíba,
Brazil, where the author was born.
Two views of the semi-arid landscape of
the North-east.
Two photos of favelas (shanty towns) in
Recife, Brazil.
The Option for the Destitute
rule of the so called rural and urban
“colonels”, dominated the economy and
the formation of state and municipal
The North-eastern region of Brazil
governments.
includes nine states in an area of 1.6
A stratification which produced the
million square kilometres – bigger than
greatest political, economic and social
the territory of England, France,
Germany and Italy together. It houses 56 backwardness.
million people – more than the
The performance of SUDENE, a federal
population of England.
institution, directing resources to an
It is the poorest region in the country. incipient industrialization, would alleviate
The per capita income was R$6 thousand the regional poverty but would also
in 2005, a mere 8 dollars a day. Its huge promote urban sprawl and the
proliferation of huge favelas.
semi-arid area suffers from long and
habitual periods of drought. The largest
It was in this environment that the
cities present large areas of favelas (shanty researcher Pedro Muniz was born and
towns), with a severe social condition.
lived. The son of a small farmer, a kind of
hero who raise some cattle in arid land,
In 1947, the year the researcher was
born, right after Second World War, the who grow beans, corn and cotton using
primitive tools, such as hoe and plough.
situation was even worse, poverty
dominating the fields and the towns.
In a backward political context, the
local and regional oligarchies, under the
His father, also called Pedro, was
Honest people in search of food.
someone who handled the hoe and the
These facts would sparkle questions.
plough himself. He would later became a Why so much suffering? Why so much
businessman and cotton processor.
injustice? Why so much poverty?
His mother, Lourdes, was a housewife,
In Recife, Pernambuco, his question
like most women in the region. The
would run deeper with the contact with
advent of industrialization hadn't yet
the favelas and prisons, in which he would
taken the women to the condition of
do community work and promote the
factory workers, and least of all,
creation and maintenance of NGOs in
businesswoman.
activities of gender, citizenship and
Since an early age, the researcher lived education.
near poverty, destitution, the suffering of Later, as a lawyer and member of the
the people, the great social differences, OAB (Brazilian Lawyers Organization), he
the economical and political disorder.
would act in defense of human rights in
Still a child, he experienced droughts. He prisons, due to the perverse jail
saw, close up, infant mortality, children conditions of their population.
he knew dying because of lack of food
The researcher himself suffered the
and medicine.
difficulties of the region and he had to
He saw families dying because of
fight to overcome challenges.
starvation and scourged population
invading and plundering towns.
Later, he would do the Master's course
At the age of 11, a disease in the joints
left him paralytic for almost two years. in Business Management in a partnership
He is cured and survives thanks to the between the University of Pernambuco
intervention of a young black doctor, Dr. and the Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid (Spain).
Geraldo Gomes.
In his university life, as a student
The treatment would now be easy but
at the time, medical assistance was very leader and president of the Students'
Union at Law School, the joined the
difficult.
movement against dictatorship, for a
After 7 years, he enters the Medical
School (Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de National Constitutional Assembly and
Recife). Later, while studying Sociology, Immediate Direct Elections, in the
with the country in crisis and the North- authentic wing of the Democratic
Brazilian Movement.
east being the most affected region,
Muniz is forced to leave both courses due Directed demonstrations which
literally stopped the centre of Recife.
to lack of financial means.
He was arrested by the dictatorship
Overcoming the new challenge,
and prevented from doing a Master's
Muniz enters the 150-year-old Recife
Degree in Law.
Law School (Faculdade de Direito do
Recife), a federal institution, in which he
would graduate.
After beginning work in projects of
His income drops substantially. During
the Non-Governmental Entities
this period of time, he goes through
Organization at the UN office in Rio de many difficulties with his family and, in
Janeiro, he starts to work for
order to finance a research which
corporations such as Embratel, General consumed over 200 thousand dollars of
Electric and C.C. Brahma. Next, he
his own resources, he moves from a seabecomes a consultant of large enterprises side apartment to a house in the suburbs.
and entities such as Coca-Cola,
He sells his two cars and he lacks
Votorantim, Brahma, Skol, Bompreço
money for food, clothing, gas and even
(now Wall-Mart), Women's World Bank, the children's school. He gives up family
Fiepe, Senac, Sebrae, amongst others.
comforts but he does not abandon the
Nevertheless, he gives up a
researches.
professional career in the great
However, it is the context of contrasts,
corporations as well as a political career living together with such diverse
proposed by senator Marcos Freire.
conditions as the favelas, prisons,
He opts to leave corporate life in order drought, large enterprises, international
to have the condition to research and
corporations and the democratic political
write. He leaves behind a life of
engagement that takes Muniz to a diverse
continuous travelling and begins to teach vision of society, of its many faces.
in Business Schools in the North-east.
The contact with extreme situations
enables him to direct his researches with
more objectivity, with a critical look on
the reality of the people, without illusions
that could distort the approaches.
It was in this environment that Muniz
developed his researches and two books.
Even without the means to go to
great universities abroad, even without
the support of governments and
universities, Muniz develops creative and
critical work, mainly in the cause of those
in need.
Muniz did not choose a selfish career
of professional success.
His personal option was consciously
taken. The option for the poor and
destitute.
Testimonials
It is the most important work on
At last, there will come the era of Peace
political organization of the human kind. and Justice for the oppressed populations.
Innovative, it changes radically the
Globalized freedom.
approach on the State. It will help to change
Bruno Medeiros – Student
the future of the populations of the world.
José Quiroga – MA and PhD in
A profound work on the organizational
Business Administration
crisis of the State and International Order.
It points out the great and serious effects of
The World State shows that the present the endemic world crisis and it presents a
States are kept under organizational
logical array of options for the evolution of
structures which have been worn out by
the political organization of the people.
time, separated from a new order which has
Ester Matos – Sociologist from the
come from globalization and which needs Fundação Joaquim Nabuco de Pesquisas
to evolve.
Sociais
Osvaldo Cabral de Mello Neto – MA
and Director of the Business Administration The book shows the organizational crisis
College at UPE
of the State and the International Order
and its terrible effects today and for the
The World State proposes the
future. It is a great warning to politicians
strengthening of the Legislative and of
and businesspeople.
popular participation. A new and
Eduardo Catão – Engineer,
appropriate model of Democracy.
businessman, ex-president of the Recife
Antonio Moraes – Deputy and
Chamber of Commerce
president of the PSDB-PE
The World State makes us think of a
The World State is hard, brave,
The World State make an extensive
The World State is rich in analysis and
world social, political and economic
bombastic. It reveals the neo-imperialism
organization which eliminates perverse of the rich countries in the G7, which
economic regimes. and which are based dominate the World, and it depicts the
on an organizational model which
absolute failure of neoliberalism after the
prioritizes the social security of its
fall of the soviet regime. How shall we
citizens.
be? The age of a global and systemic
Ywanoska Gama – Psychologist, Democracy is rising.
MA in Education and PhD in Psychology
León Costa – Teacher, researcher
analysis of the beginning of a new World innovations for the construction of a
Order. It will not suffice to feed the
more human and just society. It would
hungry but also to ensure the complete be convenient for the heads of state to
citizenship of the whole human kind. An implement a good plan from the
indispensable book to those who long restructuring of the State.
for a new civilization.
Manoel Bezerra – Businessman
Walter Jackel – Teacher, MA in
Organizational Planning and
Management
The World State
The Revolution Continues
By Pedro Muniz
Leaflet printed by Editora LivroRápido
Adress: Rua Dr. João Tavares de Moura, 57 / 99 – Peixinhos
CEP: 53230-290 – Olinda – PE – Brazil.
A tribute to Professor Pedro Muniz
This Leaflet was produced by León Costa, under the supervision of Alberto Gui and
Jota Mendes. Graphic project by Andrei Quirino.
Titles and text in Calibri (corpo) and Tempus Sans ITC.
Images researched and scanned by Ded Gui and CopyShop.
Printed in workshops of Editora LivroRápido in December, 2009.
English version: Gustavo Gouveia – English teacher.
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