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

Wed Oct 26 10:55:31 CEST 2011

Thanks, Michel, Chris.

You can find corrected text here:

http://dmytri.info/the-revolutionary-role-of-a-transnational-cou

Best,

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:47:57 +0700, Michel Bauwens
<michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> dear chris,
> 
> can you publish the text below on our blog?
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> from berkeley,
> 
> Michel
> 
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> 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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