The AEM has no objection to trade, and it can see that trade can provide
benefits for a nation and help create good international relations,
particularly with neighbouring countries. However, the AEM does warn against becoming
dependent upon trade to survive economically and as a culture because
this dependency serves to make a nation extremely vulnerable to international
exploitation and political manipulation, and it also serves to make the
economy of a nation as unstable as the international price of the commodities
that nation exports and imports.
The AEM realises that the global environment is not an Egalitarian one, and that
Australia is in economic, political, and often military competition with
other nations and powerful international companies. Therefore, the AEM
realises
that Australia needs to remain just as tenacious within the
international marketplace. In fact, Australia has no choice (at
least for the present) but to
remain committed to trade because it is the only way we are able to ....
- pay back our foreign debt and the
interest accumualyed by this debt.
- pay for those imported goods that are
currently required to sustain our culture (e.g. oil-based products,
timber), and
- buy back Australia from international
investors.
However, the AEM has a very different view of
globalization. Globalization is not just about economic rationalisation and
interdependency, it is also a culture. And as with all cultures, it is
shaped by the most powerful members of the (global) community, which
means the contemporary culture of globalization is a very western/capitalist culture.
Ideally, we in
the AEM feel that a culture needs to demonstrate that it has got its act
together domestically before it should be allowed to
spread beyond it boundaries. According to the AEM, a good culture is
measured by its lack of social problems, and the reason that it spreads
should be because other nations (not their leaders) are voluntarily choosing it because they can
see how good it is. Instead, and as we have seen with colonialisation and other
cultural expansions, the capitalist culture is being
spread globally by military, economic, and/or political conquest and corruption, which are
endemic characteristics of the capitalist culture. Being able to force a
culture upon the global community does not mean that it is a good
culture, but a dominating culture, which as always is designed to favour
the rich and to keep the poor poor. As you know, western/capitalist
nations are filled with social problems, which means that capitalist
version of globalization is, and will continue to be the cause of widespread social problems
on an international scale. As such, the
AEM is not so much opposed to globalization as it is with the
capitalist culture of globalization. Our ultimate goal is to change the
culture of globalization to an Egalitarian one, but this will take many
years and many other nations changing to Egalitarianism (because they
will be able to see how good the culture is here in an Egalitarian
Australia).
Currently, Australia chalks up a trade
debt of over $1 billion every month, and often it is over $2 billion. The AEM can stop
trade debt easily because we
manage every aspect of the society. Therefore, if we choose to, or we need
to reduce imports to reduce our trade debt (or our foreign debt), it will be done. That is,
we don't waste our time trying to deter people from buying imported
items through such methods as increasing
import tax. Instead, the AEM Egalitarian government reduces importation
on behalf of the nation, and therefore private individuals or managers
of businesses are unable to import items without the permission of the
state. Currently, governments blame the private sector for this
enormous dept, but in the AEM's Egalitarian society, there is always
only the government to blame when we spend beyond our means. Therefore,
we can assure you that it won't occur because it is very easy not to
over spend when the government is the one in charge of importation.
