In 1991, after over 30 years of analysis and authentic thought, I printed my concept of the longer term democratic society in "Technological Democracy: A Humanistic Philosophy of the Future Society" and introduced its additional refined construction in my later-cited later publications. Due to the worldwide financial disaster that compelled individuals to seek for a brand new social system to exchange the outdated, corporate-dominated one, I made a decision to put in writing a simplified and concise model of my concept in a mere 64-page manifesto To publicize generality as a information to motion to vary the system. I firmly imagine that that is the system of the longer term world that may come to fruition on this century. It should save many lives and alternatives if we perceive it now and take motion to make it occur earlier than it will get too late to cease the widespread violence and bloodshed.
The financial idea introduced right here is a part of a brand new scientific concept of technological-democratic society, which in the end, however extraordinarily, will exchange at this time's two centuries outdated chaotic and out of date system of so-called consultant democracy. Individuals in virtually all developed and a few growing nations are critically in search of a contemporary however truthful and simply system to exchange it. The general and detailed construction of this new social system, introduced in three books (over 1000 pages), can't be correctly represented right here. The reader has to maintain this in thoughts when questions come up. Nonetheless, it's pretty simple to grasp it with a bit of logic and reasoning, because the scientific foundation of the idea is predicated on the appliance of a single precept of equal alternative.
Our Structure actually covers the precept of equal alternatives, however for the sake of readability, we go a constitutional modification recognizing equal alternatives in each side of each day life as a person proper. This instantly makes democracy seen to cowl your complete system of social life: financial, political and social. Let's see what occurs to the nation's economic system and thus to particular person freedoms, political processes, social order, labor rights and equality, no matter race, gender, tradition and faith. Here's a very quick account of it ..
The brand new financial concept
The best way wherein property is created, owned and used determines the financial construction of a society and, in essence, its social and political traits. A essential situation for financial democracy is the equitable distribution of capital amongst individuals and the distributed management over its use.
The precept of unjust enrichment
The precept of equal alternatives requires that each particular person in his lifetime has full management and administration over the whole lot she or he possesses, however nobody in a technologically democratic society is allowed to take action by accumulating wealth by way of income gained by way of have to provide different individuals alternative to take advantage of and subjugate others or free switch of property. This precept is named the "prohibition of unjust enrichment". Such an accumulation is simply attainable by way of personal work. Subsequently, no one might be enriched by inheritance or the receipt of actual property or property with out enough compensation. The reason being that such enrichment interferes with equal alternatives by rising the chance with out his private efforts over the others. Inheritance is simply allowed insofar because it doesn't have an effect on equality of alternative. Revenue is one other type of unjust enrichment, because the capitalist receives it by way of exploitation of employees and shoppers. It wrongly will increase the capitalist's likelihood in opposition to employees and others. Nonetheless, a nationally decided return on using capital is justified.
Capital and capital accumulation
Whereas capital continues to be one of many foremost forces of manufacturing, its traits differ materially from these below capitalism or socialism. Along with capital accruing from financial savings on one worker's personal revenue, each employee has equal alternative for an additional supply of capital accumulation with a purpose to obtain equality of alternative. It's a sure variety of shares of his employer's firm, which he receives every month along with and as a part of his wage. This course of step by step and peacefully transfers capital from the capitalist to the employee, giving her or him an more and more rising voice within the operation of the corporate. This transition course of will produce a novel and improbable consequence. The excellence between the capitalist and the working class disappears, and the 2 change into one. You will need to notice that in keeping with this concept, the working class consists of anybody who works in a manufacturing course of from its high supervisor to its least certified.
The capital gathered by the employees below this program will not be transferable, however stays the property and management of the worker. It replaces the present social safety system and offers him with adequate revenue for a modest however snug lifestyle after retirement. Just like the Social Safety, this non-transferable capital is returned to a public entity after the loss of life of the proprietor, often known as the Public Consumption Fund, which offers free well being care and free training for all. Nonetheless, with a purpose to diversify its non-transferable holdings, the worker might change a few of its non-transferable holdings of non-transferable holdings of different firms within the inventory market. In reality, these shares are a part of the social capital in circulation and provide quite a lot of helpful capabilities, all individually and privately managed. As well as, in fact, the worker has a capital accumulation by way of financial savings from wage, revenue from capital investments in manufacturing firms, revenue from non-transferable property and inheritance. The worker has full management of all these property all through his lifetime.
The working class, shared alternatives and employment legislation
The appliance of equal alternatives creates a brand new mode of manufacturing that eliminates exploitation and step by step turns the employee right into a full participant within the manufacturing and gross sales course of. At work, completely different alternatives are created primarily based on the training and expertise of every particular person.
Beneath equal alternatives, employment is a person proper, since there is no such thing as a such equality between the workers and the unemployed in the identical subject of competence. Every establishment should present employment for all related our bodies in keeping with their degree of competence, making use of the 'shared alternative' precept derived from the precept of equal alternatives. It requires that each employee throughout the firm who has the identical degree of competence as these unemployed candidates surrender a small a part of their employment alternative (eg 1-Four hours out of 40 hours per week) to supply the identical job alternative to the candidates , The idea of provide and demand at each alternative degree stabilizes the labor marketplace for this and each different working degree nationwide. Shared alternative results in full employment and lifelong job safety for anybody who needs to work.
Work, training and pay system
The final degree of compensation is set by a normal place classification at nationwide degree, which is ready and decided by the Nationwide Financial and Manufacturing Council (NEPC) with the help of the Technodem. It is a nationwide impartial, self-monitored digital system and relevant device within the correct software of equal alternatives, often known as the most effective and most trusted pal of the individuals. The technodem accesses the costs of all items and providers and the price of residing, the NEPC calculates and stories the minimal wage, which is required for a minimal lifestyle. The NEPC designs accordingly a mannequin for the place classification and the remuneration system. This might be fed to the technodem, which might be supplied to supervise its use at any worker hiring facility. Every manufacturing firm then creates its personal place classification and compensation system in keeping with the nationwide mannequin and feeds it into the technodem, which instantly compares it with the nationwide mannequin and stories again any discrepancies for correction. Place classification inside an organization needn't be precisely the identical because the nationwide mannequin, however should match throughout the vary outlined by that mannequin.
training
In technological democracy, the work system and training merge after 12 years of normal training. Everybody has to finish the final training program. It consists of 4 years of pre-school training, which begins on the age of three to seven years; 4 years of main and 4 years of secondary training. It comprises a shortened curriculum of grades one to 12. Upon completion of this coaching program, the particular person, who's about fifteen years outdated, will begin working part-time as she begins full-time training. His research program is equally divided into normal humanistic {and professional} fields. The primary half develops him right into a democratic one who is deeply dedicated to the precept of equal alternatives. The core of his humanistic training, nevertheless, is achieved by way of his 12 years of normal training. At age 22, she or he earns the extent of information of a MA diploma below our present system, begins full-time work, and continues to review part-time for the rest of his or her working years. Any worker who involves retirement within the early '50s on the time of retirement after 30 years of labor will acquire information far past the doctoral diploma. the best diploma supplied at this time in larger training. This larger degree of information is required and wanted in a extremely scientific, technological and ever altering residing setting each at work and at house. This part-time training is a part of the required working time of the worker. For a piece program of 40 hours per week he works 32 hours and research Eight hours. Everybody begins life from scratch and step by step strikes to a excessive place and excessive revenue on the time of official retirement. There are nonetheless two or extra many years of energetic life left to every particular person after retirement to get pleasure from life with no worries of their free time, artwork, music, journey or different inventive and desired pursuits.
The federal government
The technologically democratic society is predicated on the idea that the least authorities is the most effective. Accordingly, the nationwide authorities has no home management capabilities. All nationwide departments besides protection and the state, all regulators and welfare applications are discarded. The state governments are about 40 p.c smaller; whereas rising the scale and accountability of native governments by about 20 p.c. The technodem, manufacturing firms and native social organizations carry out most public duties. There's an unimaginable growth of particular person rights and freedoms, free training, well being care, employment rights and old-age advantages, all of that are below the management of the person.
The transition course of
The transition have to be by way of a peaceable course of, then it have to be common and take two to 4 many years. The method proposed right here might be changed or modified if higher methods are discovered.
The primary and quick step is to legalize the precept of equal alternatives by way of a constitutional modification, if that fails, then by way of a nationwide constitutional conference. Arrange a brief Nationwide Financial and Manufacturing Council (NEPC) instantly after its passage (see We the Individuals, cited beneath, fig. 5, p. 49). Their first activity is to create a brief nationwide place classification and compensation system primarily based on a minimal wage calculated by the technodem. With a minimal wage of $ 8.00 an hour and an annual improve of 5 p.c, the minimal annual wage on the age of 15 will rise to 16640 euros, and at retirement age 53 will rise to roughly $ 100,000 on the time of retirement. It must be famous that the brand new system doesn't impose any particular person revenue tax or different taxes comparable to Social Safety and Medicare. These incoming prices, after deduction of taxes, thus at the moment correspond to actual revenue.
All employers should classify their employment and remuneration techniques in keeping with the outlined nationwide mannequin and feed them into the pc of the Nationwide Financial and Manufacturing Council. That is the primary creation of the technodem that performs an important function in monitoring and sustaining the democratic system. Whereas the manufacturing firms put together their very own place classification and remuneration system in keeping with the nationwide mannequin and feed it into the NEOC laptop, the Technodem develops within the data storage and capability supervision of the appliance of the precept of equal alternatives of the office and its software in political and social facets of on a regular basis life.
The transitional interval is not going to be simple. Good and sharp thinkers are wanted to clean the method. If Congress refuses to suggest the modification to the Structure for equality of alternative or obstacles created by the nationwide authorities and the provincial authorities by calling for a nationwide constitutional conference, the individuals may have no alternative however to provoke a normal strike, like him was outlined by the French thinker George Sorel till it succeeds. The nation may have a brief fee of extremely expert people to implement the brand new system, monitor its progress, make essential changes to its correct operation, and remove the outdated departments and businesses when they're now not related Together with Congress and Presidency It's acceptable to put in the brand new Nationwide Legislative and Coordination Meeting and the Nationwide Government Council. This have to be the Individuals's Commissariat and its members, who're chosen by the individuals or their elected representatives.
In a technological democracy, the social objective and customary objective for which society is to be organized is to supply equal alternatives for all. In such a perfected society:
1. Everybody begins life from scratch. Beneath the current that means of the phrases, there are both wealthy or poor.
2. Everybody receives 12 years of free normal training as much as the age of 15 years. Not solely is it fully free, no impediment might be created to forestall it.
3. Everybody begins working part-time on the age of 15, begins full-time on the age of 22, and works till retirement with out going through unemployment.
4. Everybody continues full-time training after the age of 15 whereas working part-time and resigns after the age of 22 till he retires. This coaching consists of a balanced mixture of technical-professional, liberal arts and humanities. It's diminished to 2 programs a 12 months per 12 months from the age of 22 if the worker secures a full-time place.
5. Everybody receives free well being care and provision for all times.
6. Everybody turns into step by step a accomplice within the manufacturing of products and providers from scratch. These property shares, which exchange the present social safety system however are totally privatized, are supposed to help the proprietor after his retirement and usually are not transferable.
7. Everybody works full time or equal for at the least 30 years.
8. Corresponds to a fifth of the working hours
Training. Accordingly, the particular person works for 40 hours per week 32 hours and research Eight hours.
9. Funding is predicated on the extent of training and years of expertise, with liberal arts training having the identical significance as technical or vocational training.
10. Retirement age relies on caring for younger employees to forestall equal alternatives in employment. Nonetheless, to make sure a cushty retirement life, no succesful particular person works lower than 25 years earlier than retirement full time. The final retirement happens after 30 years of full-time work.
11. After retirement, which is extra prone to happen when an individual is of their early fifties, they've adequate non-transferable property to make their revenue adequate for a easy however snug lifestyle. As well as, by way of his private financial savings, he has different transferable property below his full management.
12. All election positions in public:
on. Require very excessive {qualifications} when it comes to training and expertise.
b. Are non permanent and nobody is elected for multiple time period for a similar put up. Amongst different advantages, it additionally affords a bigger variety of well-educated retirees the chance to train public workplace and serve the individuals.
c. These two situations would provide a greater likelihood for retirees, as they're higher educated and skilled and usually are not in search of a everlasting job. They're nonetheless younger however mature and capable of take part within the political decision-making course of and public service.
13. Democratic norms and technological developments remodel household life from its conventional kind right into a democratic entity. Dad and mom are accountable, albeit differently, for the upbringing of youngsters as much as the age of 15, in keeping with which the kid, thought-about grownup, enters the labor market and is taken into account impartial.
On the time of retirement, the household, extra doubtless because of voluntary childbirth and inhabitants management, has no kids to look after; and freed from this accountability, the couple, in the event that they wish to keep collectively, have a few years of an economically safe, very fruitful, nonetheless productive, dynamic and pleasing life.
15. After loss of life, below the precept of equal alternatives, a considerable a part of the wealth of an individual is returned to society by way of the general public consumption fund, with a purpose to preserve free providers comparable to well being care and well being care
Training for the brand new era, which must also begin from scratch.
16. Though some individuals accumulate extra wealth than others, the distinction will not be so nice as to impact class differentiation. Moreover, z
Distinction is just for the lifetime of the particular person and disappears together with his loss of life. In reality, it's a classless society with little distinction in materials possession.
17. The compulsory relationship of an individual is inside their household and their office. Exterior of those realms, he stays free to get pleasure from life with many issues and means out there to him in infinite combos.
18. In its slim software, equal alternative doesn't enable for particular person competitors if there's a risk of being seized by somebody in opposition to whom the particular person competes. Nonetheless, equal alternative not solely permits however encourages every particular person to compete in opposition to himself to change into higher than what he already is. This differs considerably from the competitors in opposition to a particular particular person, even when it delivers the identical consequence. Open competitors is the spine of democratic market operation, however it's free from fraud, propaganda and false promoting. Self-competition must also be the motto of the manufacturing right here. Consequently, higher items or providers are produced that result in advertising success. The precise specs of the merchandise are given and left to the patron to make the selection. Not like the present scenario the place commercials are compelled onto individuals by being inserted into TV or radio applications, no one is compelled to observe or hear commercials in any approach.
19. The wealth of a society is the sum of particular person wealth plus all pure and different sources belonging to the entire society. Nonetheless, the vital a part of the prosperity of a society will not be financial and materials, however technological within the type of information, expertise and means which are the best way to do issues.
20. Extra vital than the manufacturing of wealth is its truthful distribution to the working class, which is topic solely to information and expertise. Each worker receives virtually the identical revenue because the others all through his or her job. There might be some variations, however it isn't so outstanding to disturb equal alternatives. Each worker begins with the minimal wage and receives extra when she or he climbs the ladder to larger positions or will get higher educated and skilled. On the time of retirement, every worker is a senior official in his firm, no matter the kind of exercise she or he is required to carry out.
21. In a democratic system there is no such thing as a class construction or class variations. Differentiation happens solely on the office, primarily based on information, expertise and experience. The working class reaffirms all working individuals, together with members of the board of administrators, senior executives to the least skilled.
22. The actual operate of the State is to ascertain, preserve and periodically assessment the requirements required by the precept of equal alternatives, specifically with regard to division of labor and compensation. The nationwide authorities has no home administration capabilities apart from a supervisory authority within the areas of the nationwide consumption fund comparable to training, healthcare and associated requirements. The federal government is diminished to its minimal purposeful dimension.
23. Personal wealth belongs to the person for all times. It's a wealth that's created, created, and gathered by way of one's personal work, using one's wealth, and never the revenue of exploitation of others.
24. Public Prosperity primarily constitutions of society's pure sources. They belong to society as a complete and subsequently the web proceeds are given to individuals. Equal alternatives don't enable non-public possession of pure sources comparable to oil, gasoline, minerals and forests. These sources might be leased to particular firms to function. No matter stays in spite of everything prices have been paid, together with the depreciation of instruments, equipment and different properties used for manufacturing, goes to the general public consumption fund and is used for most people.
25. The voting system is managed by the technodem. The one factor a candidate has to do is to enter his title for the workplace she or he is attempting to decide on into the listing of technodems for that workplace. No extra data is required because the technodem is aware of each single particular person within the firm. The {qualifications} of every particular person are introduced in three classes: private, pedagogical and experiential facets and rank for every candidate in every class. Nonetheless, every candidate might have their very own voting web site and will add extra data that they think about advantageous for his or her marketing campaign. No voter is required to vote for the primary election of Technodem. Every voter selects his or her candidate from this listing and votes for her or him by way of the election web site of Technodem on election day.
26. Political events as we all know them at this time are eradicated as a result of their existence or different organizations usually are not required or justified for election functions. The voting course of is digital, easy and freed from abuse. Through the election day, every certified particular person inserts their digital ID card into the pc and is checked in opposition to their background. If he's certified, he'll vote for the candidate of his alternative for the nationwide, state or native workplace from anyplace on this planet.
27. There's non-public possession of the technique of manufacturing of
Items and providers. This property could be very scattered, with few concentrated.
28. Large firms are mechanically damaged up into a number of smaller firms as workers take over. Large overhead prices are saved.
29. A brand new free-market economic system primarily based on equal alternatives might be created, with truthful and open competitors.
30. No particular person taxes, no property taxes and no social safety taxes.
31. Defending the setting, preserving pure sources, and making significant use of these sources for the advantage of most people and preserving their form for future generations, when equal alternative requires it.
32. A notable end result of this method is the disappearance of all financial, political and social curiosity teams. There might be no want or necessity for his or her existence. For the primary time, individuals are free from the pressures, calls for and limitations of 1000's of such organizations that exist at this time, together with all nonprofit organizations. What a beautiful freedom that may carry.
Morality below technological democracy
The ethical limits of technological democracy are very broad and primarily based on the precept of equal alternatives. No normal moral codex might be complete sufficient to cowl an virtually limitless vary of these ethical skills that relate to values comparable to honesty, integrity, humility, and freedom. It's not possible for any thoughts to grasp the infinite number of particular person liberties and good deeds that consequence from this ethical basis. No matter how broad and broadened these pursuits are, it's all the time simply an infinitesimal faction, whether or not the pursuits of the person revolve round his or her personal good or the well-being of others, which could possibly be attainable below this democratic system. In these virtually limitless limits the person drives his freedom of life and his pursuit of happiness.
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references:
The next books and articles clarify intimately a strict complicated concept of a humanistic future society. About 30 years of the creator's time have been invested within the growth. Readers are requested to be affected person and deep of their understanding and interpretation. In keeping with Karl Marx's concept of communism, which was utopian and not likely relevant, that is the second rational social concept primarily based on cause and logic. It's also pragmatic and sensible. The creator's quick biography and books beneath, in addition to some related articles, might be discovered on his web site and at http://www.ezinearticles.com/?knowledgeable=Dr._Reza_Rezazadeh
Technological Democracy: A Humanistic Philosophy of the Future Society, 1990, p. 365.
Technodemocratic Financial Idea: From Capitalism and Socialism to Democracy, 1991, p. 359.
Passage to a simply society: secrets and techniques of democratic life, leisure and happiness. 2003, p. 374.
We, the Individuals: Democracy as a System, a Humanistic Philosophy of the Future Society, 2010. Frederick, Maryland: Publish America, p. 64.
This guide is a really transient and easy account of the idea in public and a information to a nationwide motion and motion together with the final strike. For these interested by a profitable transfer or motion, it's a good suggestion to learn the creator's article on the final strike and a few of the writings of the French thinker George Sorel regarding his concept of the final strike.
It must be famous that Vice President Al Gore had not but invented the Web when the primary two books had been printed within the early nineties.
