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Last edit on Apr 16, 2008 7:40 AM by roger4911

Program


This is a simple and practical political program most people can support.

Private property
Everybody can register the same amount of private property, like cars,
houses, apartments, boats, etc..
Special rules for children of different ages, they get a part of a grownup's
amount of property to be handled by the parents.
When this program is implemented the ones who have less than the average
can register more private property for free until they reach the common limit,
the average. Those who have too much can only register the same amount as
everybody else so they must give the rest to the society. This is a much simpler
administration than needed by the capitalist system with all its money
transaction, value paper, etc.. It will more like the car registry, you register a
certain car, house, apartmen or boat as your property.

Consumption
Everybody has the same right to consumption of consumption stuff,
like food, clothes, etc..
Most simple consumption stuff is not checked in any way, just get it
for free at the supermarket. A few things like airplane travelling, russian caviar,
must be divided fairly among all people, using a personal consumption card.

Individual freedom
Everybody can choose for themselves what to do.
There is no money system, all work is voluntary.

We simply assume that enough people will work in the production of food
to satisfy the needs for everybody. This needs less than 2% of the people and
the food production is being further rationalized with time.

The rest of the production depends on what people want to produce, it is up
to each person to contribute in any way he likes to the society.

He or she can also choose to do nothing if he likes. Freedom of the individual
is more important than production results, and we are still convinced that enough
people will contribute with things that are useful for us all.

Look at the open source and freeware software production, for example.
Millions of software writers are already today producing
software without getting paid for it.
A lot of people like to do things that are useful, or which generate happiness,
like musicians, for example.

==Laws
We must have some laws, like you must drive on the right side of the road,
you may not steal other's property, you may not hurt anyone or threaten
anyone. No laws against drug use, it is up to the individual.

Enterprise
Anybody can start a new company for production or other activities.
Apart from your own private resources you can ask for extra resources from
the democratic institutions, like the town hall, the national government, etc..
You can ask for help from other people to achieve more than you can alone.
The company must be run democratically if more than one person is involved.
And, of course, you cannot make any profit, there is no money system, but
you can produce something you think is good for people.

Democracy
The society is run democratically, and the common resources are ultimately
managed by the democratic institutions, which can delegate the running of things
to single persons or companies, as suitable in each case.

Copyright
There are no laws about copyright and patents. Everything published is the
property of all of us, it belongs to the human race. This means you are free to
copy and distribute computer programs, music, movies, etc as you like.
The authors have no need for compensation as they are guaranteed
material equality as everybody else.

How-to implement this program
Start a new party in your country with this program.
When you have a majority you can implement it.
We have democracy already in most countries in the world,
so this can be done peacefully and legally.
Violence or illegal struggle for this program is useless, we need
the majority of the people behind this program before it can be
implemented.

Explanations
This program is intended to be a program for any and all countries, and ideally for
the whole world, in the post-capitalist era.
This program does not suffer from a lot of problems in the capitalist system, like
problems with interest rates, inflation, wages, mortgages, insurance companies, etc..

This program page
This page cannot be open for public editing, for obvious reasons.
Political enemies would destroy it.
Discussions about this program are held in the newsgroup alt.society.futures
available to everybody who has internet via google groups.

Program name
This program could be called anything but we recommend the name Utopia,
because this program is in line with utopian thinkers through the history, and that name
does not have any serious negative connotations to most people.
But if this name causes problems of misunderstandings you can choose any name you like.

Earlier web site
For people wanting more background we can recommend an earlier web site about
this program: http://hem.passagen.se/rj77/


All pages of Program wiki zipped up can be downloaded using the link below:
http://wikihost.org/wikis/program/programm/gebo.prg?action=fullexport


For those who cannot access the newsgroup alt.society.futures this
comment page can be used to communicate your questions and comments:
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