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 -
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".Entrepreneurs
are 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!?
Channel 34 of the Time/Warner & Channel 83 of the
RCN
Cable Television Systems in Manhattan, New York.
The Program can now be viewed on the
internet at time of cable casting at: WWW.MNN.ORG NOTE: You
must adjust viewing to reflect NYC time & click on "WATCH MNN 1" at site
Libyan
leader
Muammar
Qadhafi
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President
Gamal
Abdel
