Claim. The political, economic, and ethical content of the ideal Pledge-4 world — interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universally shared values — is just family-structure extrapolated to society: parents’ love-mediated joint ownership becomes the model for everything.
Elaboration. SMM grounds the three principles in family co-ownership: “The society of the ideal world will be characterized politically by principles of interdependence, economically by mutual prosperity and ethically by universally shared values. The core content of the principle of interdependence is co-ownership based on God’s true love. The basic model of the society of interdependence is the family. By co-ownership, I do not mean ownership merely in relation to material possessions, but ownership based on God’s love. In the family, even though all property would be legally held in the parents’ names, in practice it would be jointly owned” (4.2. The universal family encompassing heaven and earth, 271-76 1995.8.22). The political form is consensus-by-love, not adversarial competition: “Participating in communal politics serves the purpose of electing representatives. Yet if we understand political units to be an expansion of love-centered family relationships, then antagonistic relationships would not exist among candidates. Their candidacy would be rooted in a calling to serve” (ibid). Pledge 4’s social vision is therefore a family writ large, not a re-invented political order.
See also. csg-universal-family-encompasses-cain-and-abel-realms, csg-living-for-others-is-the-foundational-principle-of-creation