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Autonomism
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"Maneuvering Through the Maze To Government that Serves All of the Governed"
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| General | We, the governed, have been fed a vicious pack of lies, and many of us know it. What social contract? Which citizenry had any real choice as to the type of constitutional agreement that they supposedly entered into with their government and fellow residents? What democracy? Which people of which nation truly govern themselves? What profit motive? Where is the land where people are paid in any reasonable proportion to the quality and quantity of the work they perform? What equal protection? Which country is it that doesn't afford special legal privileges to the wealthy and well connected?
The truth these lies are meant to conceal is an ugly one - the fact that every nation on Earth is operating to allow a few members of a small owning class to exploit and subjugate a much larger working class.
They have been able to get away with this because the theories that underlie operative governments allow them to do so. Whether it be Authoritarianism or Republicanism, Capitalism or Keynesianism, Conservatism or Liberalism, Communism or Socialism, each of the operative ideologies is debilitated by fallacy. They have all left the door wide open for the privileged to exploit the working class - it is no wonder that they continue to walk through it.
Autonomism would close that door and open up many new ones, including the door to real democracy.
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| | Music | In operation, Autonomism would:
1. Establish a Right to Individual Autonomy: It is designed to give people what they want governmentally, as long as they do not violate the rights of others. It would guarantee residents the opportunity to decide whether to enter into certain social contracts with others, and ensure that all reasonable options are on the table in the process. In addition to the existing governmental objectives, citizens would be able to to choose whether their administrations are structured to serve as a conduit for self-determination politically, a facilitator of income based on labor economically, and an impartial arbiter legally.
2. Expand Constitutional Law to Enforce that Right: It would subject public contracts to the same rules of fairness that apply to private contracts. Rather than continuing to pretend that ancient creeds agreed to by small numbers of politicians amount to social contracts between living populaces, citizens would have the right to "offer and acceptance", "consideration", "bargained for exchange", and certain defenses when formulating and ratifying constitutions.
3. Encourage Nation Building Based on Philosophy to Enhance that Right: The more of the people whose interests are represented by their government, the more democratic it is. And the more that the citizens of any state agree with each other, the more that their government can be structured to represent their interests. Rather than continuing to let state boundaries be defined by history or the prevailing winds, and to settle for governments that barely satisfy barely half the people at best, this theory would promote organized democratization - the separation of citizenries according to the type of government that they desire, and the establishment of corresponding states. |
| | Movies | As a systematic theory of government, "Contractual Autonomism" is not related in any way to other entities that refer to themselves as Autonomists.
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Autonomism's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Occupation: | Political Theory |
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Autonomism is a theory intended to control governments into serving the common good, from the ground up.
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Political Systems Based on Consent
Economic Systems Based on Labor
Legal Systems Based on Equality
www.autonomism.com
Autonomism is designed to serve the common good by facilitating self-determination and giving people real choices regarding whether and which types of social contracts they enter into with other residents.
Most simply put, the theory is comprised of the following arguments:
- That governmental systems, like any other, should be specifically designed to pursue certain goals.
- That the public pursuit of certain objectives would serve the common good more effectively than any other - namely, political systems based on consent, economic systems based on labor and legal systems based on equality.
- That the powerful typically act to keep such objectives out of the equation when constitutions are framed and interpreted.
- That certain mechanisms would constrain the powerful from continuing to keep governmental options limited to those that allow them to exploit the rest of us.
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This theory (more specifically known as "Contractual Autonomism") was formulated by Christopher T. Widholm, a public interest lawyer and activist from New York State. It is the subject of a book entitled "The Autonomist Precepts: A Systematic Theory of Democratic Government", which is expected to be finished soon. The theory is described in greater detail at autonomism.com.
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