The Principles of Socialism
Socialism must be based in natural human needs, wants, and human
development.
It is natural that parents care for the needs of their children. As
children grow, they develop from self-centered need gratification to
community connection, which is a fundamental human need. Community
connection proceeds from the service of the self to the self to the
service to others. Service to others may mean at one level, service to
the individual's own children and family or it may extend to working
in the community to meet the needs of others.
This developmental process should be the basis of socialist
development because it is natural to human beings. Socialist
principles should never be based on principles that are alien to the
natural inclinations of human beings.
We are born with nothing but needs and if we die of old age; we die
with nothing but needs. Through the process of life, we will optimally
develop if we proceed through self-centered need gratification and
expand our perspective to the needs of others. Through self-
centeredness, children learn to appreciate the wants and needs of
human beings. As we grow and if we have children, we learn that their
needs are more im****tant than our own. If we do not have children, we
still learn that the needs of other people are more im****tant than our
own through other means besides parenting.
Human adult happiness can be achieved through one thing only. It is
achieved when we genuinely place the needs, happiness and well-being
of other people above our own. The human individual that is stuck in
selfishness is truly im****tant from a socialist point of view because
he is suffering more than more developed human beings. In addition,
from the socialist point of view, who suffers most is most im****tant.
One problem with the capitalist stage of social development has been
that those same individuals that suffer in the cage of selfishness
that deserve our compassion, have taken complete control of our
societies. It is as if the children have taken control of the
household.
Capitalist societies must be put on notice. Legislation must be pushed
through capitalist parliaments that if capitalist control of
government does not serve the needs of the people, then socialist
control of government will take place. In other words, the adults will
take control of the household.
Criteria should be developed with this in mind. That is, criteria that
measures human misery. Should human misery fall below a certain level
on quantitative and qualitative measures, then socialists will replace
capitalistic lawmakers on national and preferably international levels
and form a revolutionary new socialist government with the following
principles as its foundation.
That society functions on the bases of the needs of the community.
That the needs of the community are *****sed with the neediest
individual deemed as the highest priority.
The needs of the public are deemed the highest priority.
Production is based on the needs of the community.
Distribution and trade is based on the needs of the community.
Owner****p and control of natural resources is in the hands of the
community.
Owner****p and control of the wealth created by labor rests in the
hands of the community.
Owner****p and control of the community rests in the hands of all
members of the community.
Community leader****p is based on service to the needs of the
community.
Socialist societies will be fundamentally different in one single
fundamental respect at first; that the owner****p and control of
natural resources rests in the hands of the community.
Socialist societies will evolve through achieving owner****p and
control of industry placed first in the hands of nation based
community control. Control will devolve to the local community as
expediently as is practical.
The process of transformation from the private sphere to the public
sphere is accomplished through cooperation and agreement wherever
possible.
Early socialist societies will maintain the same institutions,
businesses, infrastructure, and liberal legal principles as late
capitalist societies. The legal principles that are contrary to
socialist principles will be abolished.
The institutions created through private owner****p be initially
maintained and *****sed for value to the community.
Where capitalistic incentives are needed for under-developed
individuals and communities, the community will hold strict control
over production, trade, and the relation****p between private bosses
and workers.
Where capitalistic incentives are needed for under-developed
individuals or communities, the coercive nature and threat posed by
those individuals and communities is openly and frankly discussed in
public forums.
Practical steps are taken to prevent those same individuals from
manipulating wealth and community control for their own benefit.
In all cases where capitalist incentive mechanisms are needed, they
will be on a tem****ary basis.
In all cases where capitalist incentive mechanisms are needed, workers
will be organized in democracy-based unions outside of the control of
the owners.
Control of both natural resources and industry will devolve to the
community where industries are located.
That trade between communities is coordinated and based on community
needs.
Individuals work is not forced.
Individuals should work in accordance with the needs of the
community.
Work direction is based in community needs.
Work initiative is based in crass goal achievement for those in lower
stages of psychological development.
Work initiatives are based in self-centered needs for youth with the
recognition that self-centeredness is valuable and necessary for youth
to develop.
Control of work is based in the individual's willingness and ability
to take initiative and owner****p of the problem of community needs.
Workers that carry out, facilitate and coordinate trade between
communities are included and welcomed while they are away from their
home community.
Communities will assist other communities where trade or production
development is difficult or slow. Trade should focus on the needs of
the community but also on the needs of foreign communities.
State control of criminality will evolve toward social and community
control.
State control of all institutions will evolve toward community
control.
State control will evolve toward community control; community control
will evolve toward family control and toward no control. Individual
emancipation from state coercion is a fundamental goal of socialism.
Socialist societies will develop toward the abolition of the state.
The socialist state will adhere to freedom of speech, freedom of
assembly, freedom of media, and people will not require payment for
information. Information will be free and unfettered.
Repressive state forces will be in formed only in the case where
tyranny and oppression must be curtailed. Authority, whether it is the
authority of a parent or a teacher or police, will never be abused. If
it is abused, the authority will be removed by the state from the
individual, the body or organization.
Discrimination against human beings will be eliminated through
education and in severe cases of organized hate, through legal
sanctions that are aimed against tyranny.
The education of educators and medical professionals will be a
priority in all communities. These skills and resources will be shared
and developed according to need.
Vital needs shall never require a charge of money. This includes and
is not restricted to housing, food, medicine, medical care, or
anything else where its absence may result in the death of an
individual.
Technological development will be enhanced through the development of
community awards and grants and through the development of incentives
to individuals and communities.
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The great sweep of history, from the communism of hunter gatherer
societies to early tribal societies and all its developments to late
tribal societies to early feudal societies and its developments to
late feudal societies to early capitalist societies and through those
developments we now emerge, seated within the historical context of
late capitalism; aware of the sweep of history.
It has become increasingly obvious that capitalism has developed and
has become not capitalism but monopolist. The state and private
business are married and stand over and above societies. These powers
have control of the societies and the individuals in them and
together, they form an oppressive and alienating force.
The time is coming where we, the individuals that are members of
various societies, must take the initiative to move from late
capitalism to early socialism. Early socialism should and will look
like late capitalism but at that point, we will have switched tracks.
Our trajectory will have changed and we will be on the road to the
abolition of the state, the complete abolition of capitalism, and the
abolition of barbarism.
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