Essential
viewing
to
know
the
solutions
to
the
democratic
problems
facing
the
world
today
-
the
Third
Universal
Theory.
March 2nd,
2007 is the
30th
anniversary
of People's
Direct
Democracy
Power in
Libya.
Scroll down
to watch
this
prophetic
video, and
below it is
a link to
read
The Green
Book
online.
In view
of the
recent
reopening
of the
Issues
around
the
downing
of
Pan Am
Flight
103 and
the
release
of
Abdelbaset
Ali
Mohmed
Al
Megrahi
including
a
growing
body of
evidence
of a mis
carriage
of
justice
in the
original
conviction
in his
case
before
the
Scottish
courts -
we
suggest
we all
keep an
open eye
on
developments
in the
matter
and
include
below a
link to
an
interesting
BBC
video
interview
with
Saif
al-Islam
al-Gaddafi
which
might
help to
explain
how and
why
Libya
Accepted
"Responsibly"
for the
incident
but has
never
admitted
"Guilt."
A
possible
object
lesson
in the
workings
of
Realpolitik
Hard
Ball
International
Relations
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The thinker Muammar Qadhafi does not present his thought for simple amusement or pleasure. Nor is it for those who regard ideas as puzzles for the entertainment of empty-minded people standing on the margin of life. Qadhafi’s ideas interpret life as it erupts from the heart of the tormented, the oppressed, the deprived and the grief-stricken. It flows from the ever-developing and conflicting reality in search of whatever is best and most beautiful. Part One of the Green Book heralded the start of the era of the Jamahiriya (state of the masses). Part Two inaugurated an international economic revolution which does away with the old economic structures and brings them down on the heads of the exploiters. Part Three of the Green Book launches the social revolution. It presents the genuine interpretation of history, the solution of man’s struggle in life and the unsolved problem of man and woman. Equally it tackles the problem of the minorities and black people in order to lay down sound principles of social life for all mankind. The living philosophy is inseparable from life itself and erupts from its essence. It is the philosophy of Muammar Qadhafi.
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The Great
Socialist
People's Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya
is situated in
North Africa,
stretching along
the
Mediterranean
shoreline for
nearly 2,000
kilometers. Its
area is
1,775,500 square
kilometers
making it the
fourth largest
country in
Africa. Egypt is
on its eastern
border; Sudan,
Chad and Niger
are to the south
and Tunisia and
Algeria lie to
the west.
A
Not So Brief Summary of a 30
Minute “Conversation” videotaped
June 12, 1991 with:
HON. MU-AMMAR AL GADDAFI(H.H.C.)
*I do
include as an
"obiter dictum"
interpretation some
of my thoughts (from
July 2004)
about the Program,
Colonel Gaddafi,
the
Country of Libya and
the Libyan
Revolutionary example
according to my own
understandings.
You are invited to
consider them but
emphasis they are my
interpretations
alone and you may
well want to
disregard them or
consider them in in
terms of your own
understanding, and
particularly are all
obviously open to
clarification by
those familiar with
and responsible for
official Libya
Policy including
evolving
modifications which
may be relevant in
the early Spring of
2010.
Thank
you for viewing.
Harold H. Channer /
2010
In a "Conversation" originally
taped in 1991 Colonial Gaddafi
talks primarily about his
concept of Government, Economics
and Social Organization which
collectively constitutes his
"Third Universal Theory". His
ideas are largely contained
in his "Green Book” which he
summarizes here. This is
particularly timely as United
Nations sanctions have recently
(2004) been lifted and Libya is
very possibly posed to have a
major effect on the World
- particularly IF and as his
ideas and those behind the
organization of that society -
are valid in an Historical
sense! The program was not
intended as a "News" oriented
exercise - but rather as an
opportunity for him to present
to the American people - and the
people of the World - his
Philosophy which is unique and
deserves a hearing in something
other than the prejudicial terms
in which most reporting about
that Country has been couched.
He explains the organizational
schema in Libya is termed a
"Jamaihiriya" - or "State of the
Masses" system - which he claims
is destined to become
characteristic of the whole
World - as an Historical
inevitability!
The country is divided in a
large number of "People
Congress's" with meeting halls
established everywhere in the
country where all citizens over
18 year of age are actually able
to meet directly to debate and
decide on policies of
local, national and
international concern, - and
Sovereignty is theoretically
vested in the People
Congress's. It seems very
much like the traditional New
England notion of "Town Hall
Meetings" - allusions to which
were so prevalent in the
American "political season of
Ross Perot" at the time the
program was originally
videotaped and aired.
Mr. Perot received some 20% of
the National vote in 1992, and
the term "Direct Participatory
Democracy" is more and more a
common place reference in
theoretical political
parlance. In practice the
situation in Libya is much more
complicated of course, but the
idea and impetus is in keeping
with the best, most progressive
ideas and ideals of the modern
era. The notions of
Representative
Democracy as advanced by
America's founding fathers in
1776 must have seemed equally
impossibly chaotic to the
well established "Ancien Regime"
Dynastic States in Europe of the
time. REAL Democracy can at
times seem Untidy. His ideas
and the organization of the
Country MAY WELL have great
significance as an early and
appropriate model to the World?
Colonel Gaddafi also criticizes,
in an interesting manner, the
economic assumptions of the
United States, Multi National
Corporations and International
Institutions such as the
International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank which
collectively might be seen as
representing a "Modern Day
Ancien Regime". Technology is
advancing and ushering in an era
of unprecedented productive
capabilities. He points out
that the "Ownership" of
technology is very narrowly held
around the World by a very small
Plutocratic ownership class -
while the bulk of the worlds
citizens are resigned to serve
only as laborers in a system
where technology, often
measured as Capital Assets, is
increasingly responsible for
production. Echoing themes
found in his "Green Book" he
states in the program that"Wage
earners, however improved their
wages may be, are a type of
Slave"..."Wage earners are but
slaves to the masters who hires
them".
This
is likely to find resonance
among a great number of American
as well as others around the
World when and where it fully
dawns that a minuscule "class"
own virtual all the capital
assets which are increasingly
responsible for production. And
even when a economic boom occurs
under a so called "liberal wing"
of the ruling class as occurred
in the United States during the
recent so called: "dot com"
bubble, the system was
structured in an inherently
flawed manner so as to further
enrich the few with preferential
stock options and immoral and
illegal financial slight of hand
shenanigans. However even
during the growth period and
particularly following the
bursting of the bubble as the
dust settled, it was obvious
that the experience had left
massive numbers of the "workers"
penniless - many all but
destitute - while the wealthy
owners pocketed millions.
It might justifiably be claimed
such an outcome was inherent in
the system and financial
assumptions about the way
Capital Formation is allowed to
be achieved. Enron,
Worldcom, Arthur Anderson and
the whole panoply of corporate
and financial scandals which
rocked America and the system
which created them and that
still goes all but unchallenged
and continues to undermine
confidence in the United States
- was not, in other words, the
result of a momentary mistake or
lack of judgment here and there
but intrinsic to the assumptions
of and the very structure of the
system itself. Despite all the
"happy talk" by Sycophant and
Myopic Courtesans - Sinecured
Courtiers - the System itself
which has held sway for 200
years and daily declares itself
invincible (representing the
"End of History" according to
Francis Fukuyama) is struggling
under the weight of it's
"Inherent Contradictions" (It
seems Marx may have been right
about that) and is very possibly
vulnerable to competition by
newer more appropriate Models.
Again Libya - particularly at
the level of basic grounding
ideas and principals - may have
moved ahead of the curve?
As Difficult - in practical
terms as it obviously would be -
Colonial Gaddafi would "Abolish
the Wage System"!! There are
few public road side signs in
Libya but one which is
very prominently and widely
displayed says:
"Partners Not Wage Earners".
Libya seems unique in attempting
to make sure those who make up
an organization are "Owners
or Partners" of
the operation rather than merely
"Wage Slaves".Entrepreneursare
encouraged in Libya and helped
in their start up trials but
there is customarily one aspect
there which is unique:"They
Are Not Allowed To Hire
Anyone!! ..... "Everyone
Involved in the Enterprise Must
Be a Partner - Or Owner - of the
Corporate Entity”.
Again the reality is somewhat
more complicated but
the Democratization of the
Economy is again very much with
the tide of History. Colonial
Gaddafi said to me in off camera
in informal conversation (in
English) : "It
Is Often Difficult Being
Straight in a Crooked Crooked
World" !
Indeed one telling moment in
the taped "Conversations" (you
could look it up - it's right
there in the program) was when I
made a statement: "That
It Is Unfortunate That in The
United States Everyone Is Asking
For 'Jobs' When They Should Be
Asking For Ownership" and
he empathically answers
"EXACTLY!!"To
challenge "employment" as the
Holy Grail seems outlandish to
most in the Ruling Circles of
the Modern Ancien Regime" - but
when considering the increasing
"input" to production by
technology and particularly with
impending Cyber additions to the
pattern - questioning and
challenging the proposition that
all income distribution to the
masses should be through "jobs"
(which is the case with the vast
majority of the World's
population) may be destined to
soon become a front and center
issue of World debate in the
time ahead.
"Partners Not Wage Earners"
might
well become a real rallying call
with deep political
implications.
Unfortunately there is little
concern with this among the very
well ensconced old order where
all assets - again increasingly
responsible for production - are
so narrowly held by a small
group who can control the entire
society by their selection of
compliant managers for their
"Wholly Owned and Operated"
Media Outlets" etc. Resting
on long accepted practice they
feel they are assured of an army
of compliant "Wage
Slaves"to
manage and man their
institutions as faithfully as
the Loyal Royal retainers on
Mediaeval feudal estates.
Metaphorically they are as
Gaddafi surmises
"Industrial Age Serfs “ - in
a Dawning Age of Cybernetic
Cotton Picking Machines - and
increasingly everything else
under the rubric “The Means of
Production”. Aristotle
observed that the Slave
conditions which applied in
ancient Athens would be
necessary - so that some could
lead a civilized life of the
mind and spirit - and would be
/ remain necessary"unless
and until the loom learned to
weave." That
age may be dawning and even at
hand - and again Libya may be
ahead of History's curve.
Libya is very well
positioned to play an extremely
important modernizing role in
the Middle East and the Islamic
World where the United
States has very likely become
mired in a inappropriate
disastrous extension of Military
Power in what can only be seen
by most of the World as an
extension of traditional
European Style Colonial rule.
Besides threatening to exhaust
the American National Treasury
it has created a deep well of
resentment among the World's
growing hordes of Les
Miserables reduced metaphorical
and actually to attending to and
manicuring the lawns within the
gated communities - Castle Keeps
- of their plutocratic overlords
- much like their counter part
serfs on the Feudal estates of
the "good old days". Or the
current system which insists on
characterizing itself as the
Model for the "End of History" -
for the Ages as It were - while
the poverty plagued masses of
the World (over 50% live on less
than $2.00 a day) are left to
die of Aids and other easily
preventable diseases.
Gaddafi has won the whole
hearted support of Nelson
Mandela by taking a Progressive
position concerning Africa with
it's daunting problems which are
all but being ignored by the
"Established Powers” that be –
often inappropriately referred
to as “The International
Community". He has had
interesting communications with
Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez of
Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula Da
Silva Lula of Brazil and many
of the Progressive elements of
"World Public Opinion" which the
New York Times characterized as
"The Other World Super Power"
aligned against the United
States in it's Unilateral March
to War in Iraq. It would seem
that if there is any hope for
the needed change which treats
the Earth as United Whole System
including the Masses and all
within a proper ecological
context - it will only come from
the will of the people inspired
by a vision of the means toward
the Universal Justice and
Practical efficiencies
predicated on ideas truly
relevant to the dawning new
realities.
Tax Cuts for the already
wealthy will not serve -
catering to the powerful alone
is actually counter productive -
for, in truth, the politically
and economically powerful are
sure to be a "lagging indicator"
- the last to see - the wisdom
and the means of doing the
"Right Thing" which may now be
possible for the whole of Planet
Earth. There are other sources
of course - but a big change is,
as Bob Dylan sang, "Blowing in
the Wind" - and Libya presents
an interesting possible source
worthy of study particularly for
ideas which are neither Right
Wing or Left Wing - neither
Proletarian Marxist or
Plutocratic Capitalist but
grounded on ideas and principles
which are able to subsume and
ultimately accommodate both with
comprehensively conceived
understanding of the
consequences of the crucial
times in which we live and
particularly within which all
Humanity's progeny will hopeful
prosper - "one and all."
Democratic Ownership
Economics - or even assumptions
which could lead toward that
direction - would represent a
real Paradigm shift which the
Old Order shows no real sign of
contemplating. But as always it
seems the new ideas never come
in Societies which are heavily
structured upon assumptions and
institutions and habits of
thought - of the outdated
Paradigm. It was the "Loutish"
America example which
inspired Les Miserables of
France and It may well be that
the example of Libya might
become a Model - which has the
basic ideas and issues right -
and in keeping with the times -
and might inspire the Emerging
Masses of the World including -
in the end - the People of the
United Sates and its allies to
think anew the need for a just
and Historically relevant future
pathway out of the morass they
so proudly proclaim
as representing the "End of
History?" Of course the bulk
of "establishment thought' will
pooh-pooh the notion of any need
for fundamental change and will
deride and scoff at any who
attempt to question the basic
legitimacy of the old order.
But the mighty force of their
propaganda machine need not
restrain the thinking of people
around the world - including the
United States of America - whose
leaders seem - to increasing
numbers around the World - to be
caught like a deer in the head
lights - unable to comprehend
the changes the times call for
and can only flail about
defending the old outmoded ways
of Political, Economic and
Social organization. This
"Conversation" might help
instill thinking about possible
new ways of seeing the world -
and it's necessarily liberating
potential for a new order of
things. For that reason you
would be encouraged to view this
brief and therefore
inherently limited introduction
to one system which challenges
the whole proposition by which
the world has been and is being
run by a system of thought which
can increasingly be seen as
mired in an Historical "Ancien
Regime" myopia!?
Libyan
leader Muammar
Qadhafi
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President
Gamal Abdel
