WI: United Earth by the year 2000.

Haha! If you want to stack corpses, I will lay capitalism's abbatoir against communism's any day. HINT: It's not my philosophy what will come up unfavorably.
All that the Inquisition did over the hundreds of years in operation, was a slow weeks worth of the bodies that Stalin and Mao racked up.

The worst 'Capitalist' Leopold, did a fraction of that
 
I suppose the Bengal Famine was just a glitch in the system, then, along with the Holocaust and the Herero genocide. And let's not get into the impending death toll of global warming!

Capitalism kills more people than the bubonic plague regularly. But I don't think this is the forum for that grand debate, so I'll bow out before you work yourself into more of a froth.
 
*yawn*

We sure went from how to achieve a "united" Earth to whenever communism or capitalism (and fascism to an extent) killed more than the other (though to me my money's on the former given the role of ideology but whatever) and frankly I'm not interested in this "debate" as such would go to chat and I have no interest going there.

Not necessarily; but the global state would need to be willing to grant some local autonomy in government, but still exert ideological control. Too much autonomy and you're just the UN. Too little autonomy and you risk alienating the locals. Too much ideological control and you turn the whole world into an echo chamber at best, a constant cultural revolution at worst.

Too little ideological control and the world government becomes a convenient scapegoat for local leaders, used to excuse any unpopular policy they make and blame a distant overlord. Just look at Brexit to see what happens when that goes on too long.
Honestly I can't help but think this might be the logical conclusion of globalism, I mean say what you want about nationalism, we've seen the effects of it being abused in the past and arguably in the present but I don't see how globalism being abused would be any better.

Though come to think this whole dynamic about maintaining a global state through various methods is something that I have been thinking about in my TL and I think you hit the nail on the head about the difficulty of maintaining said state.
 
Impossible, there are too many creeds, too many conflicting ideologies, too many people that will hate others due to minor things, you can have 99.9% of the human race to be at peace, but that 0.01% will always be that one fringe group that will actively try to ruin the peace through paranoia or hatred eventually that hatred will spread and the peace will be ruined and its a repetition of the same of peace-war-peace-war-peace and on and on it goes like a turning wheel, the only real way for everyone to unify is if theres something or someone else to hate
 
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