[P2P-F] Fwd: The Revolutionary Role of a Transnational Counterparty

Tue Oct 25 22:47:57 CEST 2011

dear chris,

can you publish the text below on our blog?

many thanks,

from berkeley,

Michel

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From: Dmytri Kleiner/ Friends. <dk at telekommunisten.net>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:43 PM
Subject: The Revolutionary Role of a Transnational Counterparty
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In explaining the Initiative to form an International Debtors' Party I have
discussed the issues of why "Debtors" and why a "Party", now I would like to
introduce some ideas as to how the Debtors' Party will be different from
other parties, by proposing the idea of a "Transnational Counter-party."

A Transnational Counterparty is a transformative political organisation,
that works towards the goals of a world with no classes and therefore no
state.

It is Transnational, because, within itself, it recognizes no borders, and
it is a Counter-party, because it's goal is not to transform society from
top down by seizing the power of the State, but to fight for the social
conditions required by existing and emerging community-initiated, bottom-up,
forms of transformation. To engage in the political theatre and struggle
against the plutocratic interests from the old society that would crush any
new social developments that would challenge there privilege.

To be a transformative structure requires divergent outwardly and inwardly
characteristics.

Being part of a transformation, such a structure is a creature of the
current society, it's outwardly appearance and interfaces must be structured
according the laws and practices of the existing society in order for it to
function. Within itself it is an incubator for a new society and thereby the
relations contained within itself must reflect those it want to achieve. It
must be the revolution it seeks. It's external characteristics must be the
characteristics it seeks in the society it strives to achieve.

Venture Communism is such a transformative model, externally a joint-stock
corporation, internally fostering commons-based production, Copyleft and
Copy-far-left are also such transformative models, externally claiming
property rights, while internally creating an information commons.

Antithetical extrinsic and intrinsic characteristics are essential features
of any transformative structure. Above all, the extrinsic structure must
ensure that the regressive relations of the outside must not penetrate and
corrupt those of the inside, the extrinsic characteristics must create a
bastion that allows its intrinsic properties to develop and thrive.

A Transnational Counterparty is such a transformative model, externally a
network of regionally-bound Political Parties that contest elections for
representation within hierarchical, authoritarian Governments, but
internally operating as a radically participatory, non-hierarchical
collective that operates without borders.

The network of Political Parties it founds and co-ordinates must be legally
recognized as eligible to participate in government, and thus, these local
Parties are objects of specific Government jurisdiction.  A Transnational
Counterparty, however, must operate such local entities as extrinsic
interfaces to local governments which are closely bound to it's own, fluid
and participatory international internal democracy, and likewise it's
elected candidates must not become holders of individual power, must must
excercise power on behalf of the democratically established census of the
global membership, contractually bound to do so, and to forfeit their
position if they fail to do so. The ultimate power in the Transnational
Counterparty must be held by the membership itself, and never either it's
internal executive officials, nor it's candidates and representatives in
local governments. All agents of the Transnational Counterparty must be held
accountable to the global membership.

The Transnational Counterparty can not ever be a ruling party, though it may
have electoral success in places, the plutocratic parties will always hold
more power. This is not a rule or principle of that the party needs to
observe, this is a simple biproduct of the fact that it represents the new
society, the emerging autonomous, collective communities striving to create
a new ways of living. The plutocratic parties represent the powerful
economic forces of the current society, and thus will always have more power
so-long as the current society is not yet transformed.

Once the social power of the communities represented by the Transnational
Counterparty overcome the power of the plutocrats, this means that such a
newtork of autonomous, independent and inter-dependant communities will be
larger in it's social and economic base than that of the old society.
Society will have already been transforme. classes will no longer exist, and
without them nations will vanish. There will no longer be any ruling class
or ruling party, the State will have withered away and the Transnational
Counterparty will have dissolved into the fabric of the new society.

By the time a Transnational Counterparty has the power to seize the State,
their will no longer be any State to sieze.

A nation is a body of people kept together for the purposes of rivalry and
war with other similar bodies, and when competition shall have given place
to combination, the function of the nation will be gone." -- William Morris

 http://dmytri.info/we-need-to-work-with-the-consciousness-we-fin

 http://dmytri.info/the-existence-of-demands-proves-the-existence

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