During the 19th and 20th centuries we have witnessed applications of various social theories which led to the creation and application of a variety of political and economic systems such as, capitalism, communism and parliamentarianism, socialism, Fascism and Nazism. The reason that we refrain in the present article from categorising the above systems into political, social and economic ones is simply because the degree of interdependence between economy and social organisation is so high that in order to proceed with the setup and operation of a integrated social organisational scheme, we cannot but consider them both vital subsystems of a single organic entity and not parts or semi-independent sections of a whole that simply act in parallel.
A historical review of the various forms of capitalism, communism /socialism and parliamentarianism shows us that they all failed to secure social peace, welfare and development in the societies they were applied, while their democratic base is systematically undermined by corruption, which has been ever present during all these forms.
The undermining of the democratic function is also inextricably connected to a parallel undermining of the realisation and defence of Human Rights corrupting all the above systems into becoming fascist variants of sorts as has been historically proven, practically shown and lived today.
As a result, apart from the need to cleanse society by means of massive revolutionary practices, as has been historically been the case repeatedly, we must consider how not to repeat the vicious circle of gradual deconstruction of an originally perhaps honest national rebirth via one of the above-mentioned political systems in whatever form they may come, due to the inexorable corruption and degeneration of institutions. This can be achieved by applying for the first time in human history a system which does not abide with or fall under any of the above categories which have historically failed, and which will possess insurances and taken precautions that will not allow its degeneration over time, and whose first and foremost goal will be the maximisation of Human happiness (the pursuit of happiness) and creative self-actualisation, both of which are functions of the maximisation of human production under conditions of freedom and self-determination, with a human-centred society in its totality under which each person controls what he/ she produces.
We must therefore isolate and distinguish the potentially functional parts of each failed social system and re-combine them eclectically (i.e., an eclectic method of application) into a new system that will be rid of their vulnerable and dysfunctional facets but retain only their powerful elements.
We should also ensure that the necessary security valves are in place so as to preclude even the slightest chance of breeding ground for corruption. Taking into consideration the practical experience of human nature and its tendencies first, to avoid assuming any responsibility and second, the violation of regulations in the pursuit of personal gain (amassing of wealth as a means to protect and secure power and preponderance), all of which lead invariably to the degrading of Human Beings from having substance to being objects and the valorisation of wealth as the supreme achievement of human substance, the new system must primarily obliterate every motive leading to corruption and secondarily destroy any means through which corruption can occur.
Communism failed miserably in this because, firstly, it did not extinguish the motive for corruption but instead fomented it and secondly rendered the means to corruption easily accessible (the amassing of wealth and power remained the target and supreme reward of the few, while the means to that end was the party and its functionaries who maintained their power via their clientelist networks operating in fascist- or mafia-like relations with the rest of the populace).
Capitalism also failed miserably in securing the much valorised meritocracy because it degraded the power of every central protection and control process particularly in those areas where the uncontrolled pursuit of wealth using other human beings as tools/material/property, led to the same result as communism.
Parliamentarianism (as well as every system of representation of an aristocracy – oligarchy) has catalysed more and more corruption precisely because whatever the socio-political system that was theoretically profiled at the time, it amounted to nothing else but the amassing of wealth, personal gain and power, due to the ease which the clientelist and behind the scenes relationships were allowed to be negotiated and proliferate offering fertile ground for multiple coups and usurpation of power from whatever social system it used to possess it.
So, for a new socio-economic system to succeed and truly eradicate war and every social intensification, exploitation, inequality and human enslavement and misery, needs to be unable to corrupt by promoting representation of the many by the few.
Knowing that all violent efforts at eradicating corruption will ultimately fail, should lead us to think of positive applications and processes that shall eradicate the motive for corruption: eradicating the need for amassing of wealth, acquisition of power and avoidance of responsibility. The only way to achieve this is to secure a standard of wealth equal to all: securing, in other words, a level of property which will be considered the minimum secured level of property holding for each adult Citizen, which will not be fungible, transferable or addible to any other Citizen, even including members of the same family, as well as a secured access to every good, regardless of kind and level of luxury which will be regulated by the state according to need and non- additively. Also, securing of every physical and social need of each Citizen which will remain active from birth till death, but catered to individually and independently of each other, non-additively or merging of the right to own and use.
In other words, every Citizen, as a cell belonging to the same organism should have access, ownership and right of use to meet every one of its needs but under the condition that to exercise these rights, he/she should not use other human beings, who would not be prepared to cooperate for these purposes without proper remuneration.
Further, every Citizen, as a cell of the same organism must participate in the common affairs actively and individually and in person through his or her lifetime and share his or her commensurate social responsibility depending on age. That is, every Citizen will contribute to the maintenance of the State by participating in the running of the state apparatus, equally and without prejudice and offer his or her services according to his or her age group. In that way the State will not function being operated only by a subgroup of professionals who will monopolise the dispensing of state services, but rather by the sum total of the Citizens who shall control it and therefore support it. The rules and regulations of public administration will be clear and known since childhood, devoid of complicated detail and processes of implementation so that every Citizen will be ready, when he or she reaches adulthood and enjoys full political rights, to partake as a full-fledged civil servant in the state apparatus in the same way that every Citizen learns to use the devices of his or her everyday reality.
Because public administration must be exercised by all adult Citizens according to age, the public service of each Citizen will be short and randomly assigned in all ranks of public administration, making it impossible for the development of a clientelist relationship, even if the motive for it no longer exists. In this way, the State will have minimum costs to run itself as far as human resources are concerned, zero costs in intermediaries and maximization of its efficiency due to the simplification of the processes which will also save time and effort, apart from the fact that they will disallow behind the scenes dealings, negotiating and inability to assign culpability, or responsibility.
Government should also be exercised through personal participation of all in a direct democratic manner devoid of ministers, higher authority dignitaries and the like but instead by means of randomly selected specific-assignment holders who would first have to sign a contract of duties and work expected and who will be checked upon completion. The coordination of the direct democratic process is executed by the state administration and the only entity entitled to decide on critical issues of government is the totality of the Citizens, the People. Instead of elections for representatives who will no longer be needed, the new system will institutionalise weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and every three years referenda, depending on the seriousness, the extent of impact and the nature of the decision to be taken. The issues to be decided on, as well as the procedures through which their resolution is proposed are collected and presented by the state administration to the totality of the Citizens, who will then discuss them in coordination with the state administration till the time of the referendum.
The work time for each Citizen is split into state service and personal, whereby two thirds of the Citizensʼ available time is personal and one third at the most (depending on the population will be devoted to state service. Work will no longer be dependent but only independent or collaborative under the condition that the work conditions under such collaborative scheme are on an equal footing. Businesses are all state-owned but their running and control is exercised by the Citizens who create them. The exception to this are the Public Utility Funds. The State secures equal access to the consumers, equal access to raw materials and services and equal capacity in the use and benefits accruing from those services. In this way, true meritocracy is secured while the State will be in a position to control demand or supply of every good.
The wealth, the property, the revenue and generally the income of the State that comes from state enterprising and interstate agreements, will be equally distributed to all living Citizens and deposited in their personal bank accounts, minus the state maintenance costs. In this way, on the one hand, the State will no longer offer itself for any sort of exploitation, on the other, the Citizens will have the motive to pursue every State entrepreneurial activity since their own wealth will increase given that their only taxation will take the form of personal involvement in state service, as described above.
As regards the protection, control and securing of the above system, which should be labelled Anthropocentrism as well as the appropriate type of judicial power befitting it, we shall have occasion to talk in the second part of this article as it is particularly critical in the permanent eradication of corruption but also of the system ills of the society we live in nowadays.
Translation courtesy of Michael T.