. . Subject: Socialist Constitution proposal & cultural support documentation . . . . . From: joshb To: sec........@social..............al.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Socialist Constitution proposal & cultural support documentation Reply-To: Hello Socialist International.org, Perhaps you would like to examine my work at http://www.socialism.nl Which contains a new 239 law Constitution, being the most important innovation for socialism on my site I guess. It's a 'sovereign Constitution.' The economic model in it flows from a socialist analyses of economics, which proves that atomic trade is to the benefit of labor, provided theft is truly outlawed. This is not the case in the current capitalist model, at least not in substance. The conclusion is: trade must be made in effort (and its products, basically services & products), but markets will only do their progressive job to protect labor if power is distributed to ideally absolute perfection, because when someone has power and another has not, the power difference impacts prices unfairly. Hence, the boss gets rich and the serfs who work remain poor. A second important element is the realization that capital investment is most profitable where labor is abused most, since labor and capital are both to be payed out of the company profit/turnover. This problem leads a private capital investment system to favor dictatorships, causing ruin to a nation that does not consist of saints who to the man would sacrifice capital gladly to promote better economic justice, and who would fight to the death immediately any attempt by one person to lord over them. > ... - The state must be an Absolute true democracy, both in protocol and in substance in real life. - The markets are essential in any society larger then, say, 10.000 persons where anonimity dominates economic relations (the typical error of marxism is not to notice this issue). The dynamics of markets are essential, including the freedom to start new corporations, both by groups and individuals. However, once a corporation loses its founder, there is no reason to allow that founder of a substansive business to sell it to an outside would-be dictator. On the contrary every reason exists to donate the corporation to labor who works in it, provided the founder is justly rewarded for the work of initiating the business, and provided some functional democracy may take over and care for that business (which implies miniscule business can not become democracies, and may also be viewed as in a perpetual state of starting up, making the new dictator another founder.) - As mentioned capital would need to be taken out of the private free trade sphere. That implies the investment has to be done by some sort of people's controlled entity, most obvious being the absoultely democratic Government. I suppose there are good and less good ways to accomplish this. Note that what you'd call corruption in such a system, is business as usual in a private business finance sector. Thus, every tribute payed to the common wellbeing of people in the economy is a bonus which one would be hard pressed to find in a private investment sector. Transparency and tight people's control would be the key, as well as allowing many small investments to many people thus seeding the markets sufficiently with fresh upstarts. What more is needed, except to use the capital in an intense political way to combat abuses in the markets, if they occur. - An economic entity of note is that which existed before we came around: the natural resources. In the spirit of power distribution, and to take away too much power from Government which would corrupt it quicker, everyone is to get its equal economically valuable share of the natural resources of the nation. To make state an absolute democracy is what about half of all 239 proposed laws are to accomplish. The idea is to NOT build the state upon the factory leader councils, but to build the state directly upon the general public. The state is to resurect itself from small voter groups who assemble out of their own initiative but ideally/typically within certain geographic areas (such as streets, parts of streets.) This is under the free will of the people (at least initially, unless it fails to work then I suppose it may need some more guidance). Each voter group (I've proposed to make them 50 persons large, or larger but not smaller) will elect one 'housekeeper' to oversee voting procedure, then one delegate will result. The delegate can be replaced any moment, 50 delegates form one council. To form larger councils delegates group into larger groups. If one such group becomes impossibly large (such as for instance for a national council which would encompass all the delegates from the nation, somewhere in the order of 1% of all people which does not exactly fit into one conference room anymore), then the delegates can re-group into 50 sectors and elect per sector one delegate. That's it then, no more centralization of power. Voter group elects delegate, councils are formed, these delegates can group into 50 sectors to elect one delegate from between them, that's it. Not again are then top people voted into power. The councils rule by their own majority. They must observe the rules of the Constitution, they exist within that context. They are a toy of the Constitution, if you will. The constitution can be changed, but this requires the protocol that is part of the Constitution, which takes 5 years and a Referendum. This yields one national council. Besides this there are the usual police and Judicial branches, and a separately elected entity which inspects the Government and from which a head of state is produced. http://www.socialism.nl/gov.html The most important element of the Government is its Referendum system, which is more powerful then the representative. I hope you like it. It also has a 4 ways implementation strategy: - buy fair trade - set up investment funds that give cheap credit to corporations that by contract will follow the democratization rule at the end, - form a pack of parliamentary parties, who are internally organized along this constitution, - direct revolution http://www.socialism.nl/~joshb/sheet3.txt This is all quite an intense political program. One part is the goals, another part is how to achieve the power to implement the goals, and a third not exactly unimportant part is: how to transition the capitalist model into this socialist model. Also there is a lot to be said about all the individual elements, and more that I haven't mentioned here. I hope you give it a good study. The essential goal of the entire system is to combat power abuses and corruption, not just in the here and now, but accross the centuries / millenia. best regards, jos boersema --