Giuseppe Mazzini and Mikhail Bakunin were born in the 19th century, 1805 and 1814 respectively. Mazzini, a politician, and Mikhail Bakunin, a philosopher, had different ideas, but they both seemed to agree with their different arguments, that cosmopolitanism, even though its arguments were ideal, they wouldn’t be able to put in practice in reality. The term cosmopolitanism comes from two different Greek words, kosmos which means “world” and polis, “city”. Thus, a cosmopolitan is a “citizen of the world”. For this, cosmopolitanism is the idea of being free of national ideas, prejudices or attachments, being at home all over the world. This ideal is thought by many to be the future of a more globalized world, but it has many objections of if it is possible to happen in today’s world. First of all, the idea of cosmopolitanism is to create one state or federation among which all countries would get rid of their actual states and join this one global federation of them. We can find two major problems which are arguably impossible to look over as of today. On one hand, it seems almost impossible to change the current state system and join up such an …show more content…
There could happen large-scale migrations from more impoverished countries or areas where jobs are very hard to find, or the hard task of assuring that there would be enough-payed jobs for the entire world population. Some of these problems, for example, the massive transfer of people in search for jobs is well regulated with nationalism. It is true that it can and has created some conflict, but we have been able to live on with it, but we don’t want to imagine how overpopulation would affect continents like Europe or North America if there was to be a global free