3.1
Disalienation of the Commune
The history of humankind is the history of the powerlessness of
individuals and the rule of authorities; the history of authoritative, imposed
and, therefore, alienated categories of values, alienated activities, and,
consequently, alienated knowledge. The history of humankind is a history of
alienation or alienated history.
People believe that the development of science has significantly improved
society compared to the past, but that is not entirely true. The development of
science has brought new forms of social relations, which hide an ages-old need of
an individual to rule over an individual. Today, most presidents swear about
democracy, but in reality, they successfully avoid it as much as possible
because they like to keep power in their own hands. Most priests pray to God
that Jesus is coming soon, but in reality, they would want much more to
retain the right to interpret Jesus’s words the way it suits them best. Most
company owners swear about the free market, but they try hard to create a
monopoly for themselves. Most teachers are convinced that they love to spread
knowledge to students, but they prefer to rule over the students with the
knowledge they have acquired. Most parents swear to God about their love for
their children, but in reality, they love the power over their children. The
situation almost everywhere follows the pattern of these samples. All people
incline toward privileges. The problem is that privileges are evil for
people and
society as a whole.
There is no doubt that all these authorities suppress the people at
every moment of their lives. Once the individuals become aware of themselves in
such a society, they are already under the influences of alienated generations
and are forced to accept the alienated world as the other world they do not
see. If the individuals try to overcome the inconveniences that stem from
alienation, it would be hard for them to reach any good result. The obstacles
of the alienated society made them think through the alienated premises of
comprehending the causes of the inconveniences. After all, the alienation has
taken their abilities to recognize their natural needs.
Due to the lack of objective knowledge, the alienated society is subject to a random
selection of determinations that stem from the alienated visions of
conveniences. Such a society inclines toward idolatry, fetishism, and a very
superficial outlook on life. The individual in an alienated society bases their
own belief in the conveniences on alienated assumptions and, sooner or later,
experiences disappointment. They contradict their nature, which brings them
great inconveniences. When individuals’ alienated needs come across obstacles
in real life, their vision of survival in their alienated consciousness is
endangered. Then the same doubt in the correctness of their orientation brings
tension that pushes them to strive for the alienated vision of survival. Such a
struggle may, without objective reasons, endanger other people.
The endangering of the alienated needs of individuals brings along
aggression by which the alienation may be recognized. Such an individual is
waiting for any opportunity or authoritative invitation to act aggressively. If
the individual forms a narcissistic vision of consciousness, they then induce
great destruction toward their environment. A destructively oriented individual
terminates the conditions for exercising their benefits. Instead of purifying
their thoughts, concluding within the limits of their possibilities, and then
moving forward, such an individual passes through life blindly, favouring their
impotence and problems.
If external forces are too strong, the individual may suppress their
natural needs. Such a suppression induces non-defined anxiety in the individual
throughout everyday life. Separation of life from the individual’s nature
brings neurotic disorders and depressive states. The individual frequently
finds a way out of such conditions in a temporary restrain of emotions by using
alcohol, drugs or medicaments.
The more the individual is alienated from their nature, the higher the
deviations of their personality are. Also, contradictions in the individual become
more significant, and they have less control over their emotional states. The
individual is then inclined to any form of self-destruction. In extreme cases,
due to non-satisfied needs, alienation generates tension of such proportions
that the individual cannot objectively comprehend nature. Such an individual is
an ill individual, and such a society is a sick society.
Whatever the individual does in life, they do it intending to reach prosperity.
However, in the present-day alienated society, where subjective, erroneous
categories of values are created, the effect is the opposite. The alienated individual
lives along with the principle of their negation; they act against their nature
because they cannot recognize their nature.
The problem of society’s alienation is broad and deep, and therefore it
should be faced comprehensively. The presented analysis may conclude that all
inconvenient social phenomena arise from the individual’s inability or lack of
knowledge and alienation originating from authoritative suppression. In this
connection, one can conclude that all socially positive phenomena may arise
from knowledge acquired in natural life based on the freedom and equality of
all individuals because the individual’s productive power may develop only in this
way.
The individual’s power over other individuals is undoubtedly the main
problem of today’s society. People must reject the authorities and subjective
knowledge they imposed and establish equal human rights to gain objective
knowledge. Society should form a system able to exist productively in the
freedom and equality of all its members without the authorities and their
ideologies. It would need to allow each individual to acquire knowledge through
their practice. An individual can hardly form an accurate idea about the laws
of nature because autonomy directs them toward subjective determinations and,
consequently, towards alienation. Society, as a gathering of subjective
individuals, might form a more objective vision of reality through the practice
of equal rights among the members of society. Equal human rights are essential
for learning the natural laws and objective categories of values. This will
allow individuals and society to come closer to their nature and prosperity.
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Authorities have
always strongly opposed the establishment of equal human rights. However, people
also fiercely resisted the authorities and thus managed to increase human
rights. As a result, the United Nations has established the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, which has improved the world.
However, the
authorities have also developed their ability to prevent the development of human
society. On the way to avoiding equal human rights and retaining power and privileges in society, they have
transformed into the elite that, through enormous financial power, strongly
influences and controls the media, science, and politics, which controls the people.
They still have dictatorial control in society, which is less visible but very
controlling. The elite have accepted equal human rights mainly on a formal
level, but in fact, human rights are not equal. Presidents of countries may
send people to war, while people cannot do so to presidents. Employers may fire
employees, which increases unemployment, while workers cannot lower
unemployment to get jobs back. Teachers force students to accept knowledge,
while students cannot force it upon teachers.
One may say that
equal human rights have only been partially established. But there is no such
thing as partial equal human rights because such rights are not equal. Unequal
human rights form privileged authorities who prevent the establishment of a
prosperous society. Therefore, the lack of equal human rights ought to be
considered the leading cause of problems in society.
Throughout the
history of humankind, authorities have managed to alienate social scientists
from the cause of social problems. The foundation of social sciences is still
based on knowledge authorities have imposed on society. For example, most laws today
are based on ancient Roman law. Thus, countries still have imprisonment
sentences and, in some cases, death penalties which means they did not develop
much from dictatorial times. Under the influence and pressure of authorities,
social sciences have not recognized the natural laws of society. As a result,
social scientists cannot solve the problems of society. They give the
impression that natural social laws cannot be defined due to the complexity of
social relations. They do not even believe that it is possible to create a good
society.
This paper
suggests that social knowledge created by authorities cannot build a good
society. It already would if it could. Also, social learning built on top of
the alienation authorities impose cannot be correct. A good community requires
creating new social knowledge based on equal human rights. People with equal
rights may develop more objective social understanding than subjective
authorities. Equal human rights are entirely opposite to hierarchical
relationships and have a wholly different set of logic and results. Also, this
paper claims that equal human rights may permanently prevent the power-hungry
authorities from oppressing people. Thus, building equal human rights is
essential for creating a bright future for humankind. This book presents how to
achieve it.
The theory of
equal human rights has a significant realization problem. Privileged people do
not like equal human rights because it takes privileged power from them. The
rich despise equal human rights and suppress them with their financial capability.
Politicians would not like to lose their control by implementing equal human
rights. Social scientists are reluctant to accept the knowledge necessary for
equal human rights implementation because it confronts their acquired knowledge.
As a result, politicians, media, social sciences and the rich prevent equal
human rights. Thus, they block the bright future for humankind. This book
fights back by presenting the importance of equal human rights.
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Society has
interrupted the equal right to work by allowing the existence of unemployment.
Unemployed people must accept poorly paid jobs to feed themselves. It causes
the exploitation of workers. Equal human rights are supposed to bring justice
to the economy by shortening work hours until unemployment is removed. It will
raise the demand for workers and their salaries in the free market until
exploitation is eliminated. Then workers will have greater purchasing power,
and the economy will grow. Such policy would solve today’s socio-economic
problems and build good capitalism.
Equal human
rights are supposed to improve the economy significantly. One day, every worker
will be able to work at every public work post they want at any time. Every
public job post will be filled by a worker who offers higher productivity, more
responsibility, and demands a lower wage. It is nothing else but a developed
market of work open at all times. Such an economy cannot be realized soon, but private
companies will lose the productivity battle with public companies once it is established. This will send capitalism
down in history. This idea presents an enormous opportunity for economic
improvement capable of building good socialism.
Finally, equal
human rights should mean that all people have equal legislative, judicial, and
executive powers. Everyone should be given equal rights to judge other people’s
actions. Each positive evaluation should bring a small award to the assessed
person, and each negative evaluation should result in a small punishment. Such
a policy would make everyone work hard to please others and avoid hurting
anybody. This right of people will form a good society. The equal evaluating power
among people presents a new form of democracy, and the freedom of evaluation
presents a new form of anarchy. Therefore, such a policy can be called
democratic anarchy. Democratic anarchy alone should be capable of building a
bright future for humankind.
Natural laws of
society are the missing foundation in social sciences necessary for creating a
good society. A good society is a result of understanding its natural laws. The
purpose of this study is to explain this theory and provide evidence for the
achieved results as much as it is possible.
This book defines the process of disalienation in society. To perform
the process of disalienation, one must establish freedom and equal rights among
people. Equal rights among people and democracy that really gives power to
people will seize power from the authorities and create a sound and sane society.
This book presents how such a society can be built. The book emphasizes
political and economic relations because they are fundamental societal
relations.
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Let the primary
economic and political community be a commune. Let the commune include the
territory of the smallest society able to exist relatively autonomously or the
biggest society that offers a good insight into joint activities. It may be
assumed that a commune has from 100,000 up to 1,000,000 inhabitants. Still, it
may also relate to a small community with several people associated on a
regional basis up to, theoretically, associated people of the entire
world.
Therefore, the
commune is a part of a state and is bound to respect the state laws. The
commune has the right to autonomy to the extent permissible by the state laws.
It is necessary to suppose here the favourable orientation of the society. This
means that the state will allow autonomy of the commune to the extent that will
enable the optimal development of the community. The commune organizes its
internal order. The commune has an administration consisting of a legislative
assembly, a judicial and an executive body. They operate the same as today.
