On political capital

Since its very beginning in ancient Greece democracy has been defined as “a power of the people for the people and through the people.” However, the modern conception of democracy has always been utterly flawed; its reality is still a far cry from this rational definition.

Never have the people genuinely had their public property nor participated in ruling their common good – the state. Consequently, never has the state been genuinely expressing the Universal Will.

Like the monarchies of the Middle Ages when the ruler wanted to monopolise and monopolised all the power, the total public property and had the sovereign power to put political decisions into actions, and in so doing, did not allow his subjects to have an access to the sphere of public property, today's sovereign collective ruler, the modern Big Bourgeoisie rules in conformity with its class will and takes care of its own interests; it has been successfully defending its “sacred” right to both private and public property since the Great French Revolution.

Thus, they – the rich and superrich, – reduce all other members of the political community to a political nothingness; they do have economic being but hardly any political being. Not only are they deprived of economic capital but they are also totally deprived of public property and political capital. Their influence on imposing policies concerning the common good and developing the political capital of the community – the political institutions, the political party system, access to decision-making institutions and participation in political decision-making, genuine political freedom and freedom of the media, management of the ecological and natural resources, etc. – as well as their power to control the political development of their country ruled by the selfish and greedy global Big Bourgeoisie are insignificant. Their representative in the bourgeois Parliament transforms himself into a political capitalist, who expresses and defends first and foremost the interests of the dominating class, which – without all question, – is the absolute ruler of the ideological and spiritual life of the nation as well as its economics and politics. The Will of the capitalist class is the ruling Public Will; this class possesses not only the means of production but the total public property as well. Freedom of speech does not exist and can exist in a press owned by media tycoons or a bourgeois society owned by Corporations and run on their behalf.

A person deprived of property is deprived of rights, power, political organisations, of politico-economic being. He is a pariah, a political plebeian. He is deprived of public property. This is the political alienation of the economically alienated from the fruits of his labour individual. Marx failed to study and write about the infinitely more important alienation of every member of the political community from the state, which had tragic consequences for Marxism because his disciples implemented Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat as dictatorship of the Red Bourgeoisie over the proletariat with the result that the people in the former “communist” countries were totally alienated from both the means of production and the state.

The time has come for us to breathe new life in the not very old notion of political capital. Its present definition dates back to the time when only the wealthy class could appoint its representatives in Parliament; it still remains valid. However, this definition has had its day; it is behind our times. We need a new humanist definition of the notion of political capital.

The real political capital is not to be understood as the political image of a particular politician – as the bourgeois political sciences claim, – and it is not to be based on the political reality dominated by the exploiting class because unlike the bourgeois political sciences with their lullaby songs aiming to lull the politically robbed people, which is thoroughly dispossessed from the common good – res publica, – and successfully deprive it of its acting political will, humanism has the exploding power to free itself from the shackles of this oppressive reality and change the world. The humanists define political capital as the power of the ethical and political Will of the people to create more power for the people, as the power of their Will to be in control over the public property, and in so doing to be the subject, not the object of decision-making in the political process.

Political capital is the people's Will for political power, which wills to possess, use and create more political power. It is the Will for universal political Freedom, which constantly develops the reality of its rational political Freedom.

We define political capital as the power of the people to create and defend the common good, the power to use their public good to create more and better public good; it is the highest manifestation of their political Will for freedom. The public property of every politically strong-willed person is property of freedom, i.e. property of political capital invested in the state. The political capital of the citizens is the source of the Political Wealth of the Nations. The absolute rational will is an end in-and-for-itself, which realizes itself in its political actuality; the more and deeper its self-realisation has advanced, the bigger the political capital and political wealth of each citizen and each nation is. The principle of the absolute rational will – Rule Yourself – has to be realised as the power of the people-sovereign to rule itself. Only a sovereign people is in total possession of its will to constitute the laws of the actual common good, of res publica.

Nothing else on Earth matters as much as political capital. Not only has the political capital of the people always been stolen but it is still being stolen. Time and time again politicians become the only owners of political capital due to the so called "free" elections, while the ordinary citizen is just the object – and not a subject – of political life for his public political capital is appropriated by the Big Bourgeoisie. No more! No more electoral promises and breaking them the very next day.

No more! No pasaran! We want total control over our very own public property. We want all the power to the people!

Power over the bourgeois sovereign of power, power over their power. Only then it genuinely belongs to the people. We have to ensure that it truly belongs to the people; only that is the true path to liberation of Man. The humanist society possesses the power to exercise authority over its leaders, to rule and determine the conditions of its completely actual control over them. What are the conditions which have to be fulfilled. What are the institutions that must be implemented? These questions must be answered.

The quality of political life and public happiness is at a devastatingly low level in modern commercialised societies. With its venal media, with its force to buy the conscience of the journalists, with its mercenary and unscrupulous marionettes – the bourgeois politicians serving faithfully the interests of the ruling class of exploiters, with its shameless theft of economic and political property, the Big Bourgeoisie rob and constantly plunder the economic and political capital of the people. Such is the modern form of the master-slave relation from which humanity wants to free itself and will free itself.

The ethical decay suffered by community is incredible. For I am a coward. You are a coward. We are slaves. They are the masters. We help them create their political delirium. We cannot allow them any more to corrupt the courage of our wills and our minds. Let us do what Mahatma Gandhi preached “You must be the changes you want to see in the world.” He was successful. We can and will be successful, too. Is there anybody out there with political courage? We have a tremendous political capital. What we need is the political courage to invest it.

There is no wonder why the modern Man does not participate willingly in elections and is highly critical about the incredible corruption of the uncontrolled political class. We get engaged in the common deed as much as it belongs to us.

We will overcome and triumph over the system of inhumane, enslaving souls political capitalism and will replace it with an universal organisation of political republicanism; res publica is pure and sacred, it is above everything else. All the Power to the people!

Down with the illegitimate appropriation of the political capital of the citizen, of the political subject. Down with the illegitimate appropriation of the sovereignty of the people. The state is the highest organisation of the public good; it belongs to us all.

The expropriation of the expropriators is absolutely necessary. So is taking possession of public power – of res publica, of the common deed, – through the common for all will of the humanist society.

Ever since the French revolution the economic exploitation of the working class by the dominating class has been guaranteed by its exploitation of both the economic and political capital of the people. The political misery of the working class was the result of the oppression and violence used by the Big Bourgeoisie. Marx understood that economy is based on political power and in the name of the upcoming proletarian revolution of his time created the political economy of the proletariat. He wanted the proletariat to enter in possession of its enormous political capital. He was one of those geniuses who changed the course of the world history because he expressed the absolute ends of his time.

Today the political capital of the people – not only of the working class, but the numerous and well-educated middle class as well – is still totally exploited by the Big Global Bourgeoisie. Like Marx, we also understand that exploitation can be abolished only through political organisations and the means of a humanistic revolution.

There is a world of difference between a society ruled by greedy capitalist-minded politicians and a society of statesmen: While the first are driven by their Will to power of the Bourgeoisie for the benefits – first and foremost – of the Bourgeoisie, statesmen are led by their Will to freedom and welfare for all. The greatness of the Will to freedom is undisputable. And this is the greatest message to the World: we are to win and overcome the capitalists' Will to power and make sure that our Will to freedom rules and prevails in a society of direct and pure democracy. Our Will to freedom is to overcome modern slavery in its established form as pseudo-democracy in which the ordinary citizen is alienated from his supreme public property – political power over the common good, res publica; in other words, to abolish today?s pseudo-democracy, in which Man?s political capital is appropriated economically and politically by a greedy exploiting class.

Today we want to free ourselves from the oppression of the principle of private property because it leads to the total privatisation of public property and political power, i.e. to the total privatisation of the political capital of the citizens and the nation as a whole. We want to get rid of the dictatorship of the Big Bourgeoisie and its political puppet – its servile political class; it is perfectly understandable why the ideologically corrupted political class is also vitally interested in imposing and preserving the principle of private property.

We want to introduce a new humanist constitution of freedom because only within humanistic forms of government can fair possession of political capital be found. The owners of humanist political capital have the right to build the kind of government they will to have and deserve to have.

We will to create a political order in which men and women possess and use their Political Will so that they do not express their opinions during elections only but constantly exercise the permanent and invariable virtues of their Political Will; then and only then do they come into possession and are in possession of the state as the live reality of their public property. The people decide for all power belongs to the people. It possesses and uses its total political capital completely and freely. Long live res publica!

We stand for the right to free and active political will. The total and actual political participation of the sovereign people in all decision-making processes, the total political accountability of their representatives and rulers, focusing on political virtues and values as well as on public policy initiatives that allow the people to communicate freely political ideas through a tight network of contacts in all areas of the political debate and implement them, et cetera ? all these things are a manifestation of the free political will of the people.

A duty of every man in particular and a politically sovereign people as a whole is to use their enormous political capital totally. A people is ethical – and its state ethically powerful – only when its members have the duty to use their political capital and participate actively in associations working for the common good, to overcome and win the compulsory total immersion into the morass of privacy to which lead them every dominating class with a view to suppressing and destroying completely their political will, to idiotise them – to make them useless for the common good, res publica. No man's political capital can stay unused in the humanist state. The right to political will cannot be passive. It must be active and thoroughly used.

Today our task is to create such a social order in which I have myself, my whole political capital at my disposal. I – everybody is I – want to participate in the rule of the state, and only when I do participate in the state life and develop my qualities as a statesman, I am an ethical member of the political community. The state is a common deed.

Developing the art of statesmanship out of a sense of duty: it is time for the citizens to begin to identify with the public sphere and have a great sense of responsibility with respect to their role in it and make the most of their political capital.

Possession of political capital is a guarantee for the political freedom and public happiness of each person and each community. Entering in possession of its political capital, a people is entering in possession of its sovereignty and is genuinely free. The amount of fair political capital a people possesses is an indicator of its sovereignty.

Using the knowledge of the people about capital as it is understood in the science of economics, we can define the state as a practical realisation of the political capital of the people. That is the reason why we also want to develop political economy as a field of politovolia; a field dealing with the economy of the common good as well as political power over public property. There is a world of difference between the capitalist political economy (there is not and cannot be a genuine common good in a society ruled by the principle of private property) and humanist political economy, which does take care of the common good and the ethical duties of the citizen in his state.

The sacred right of a people to have political capital – to be in possession of its common good, of its res publica can only be preserved if the expropriation of economic and political capital by a greedy and exploiting class is limited; expropriation of the expropriators and abolition of the currently existing political order is a must if we want to implement humanistic reforms and programs. We need powerful humanist political associations and movements to perform this abolition and expropriation. As a result, we will certainly be able to eliminate or at least reduce in some cases the economic and political problems of the modern capitalist society.

We will not allow the so called now people's representative to continue to become masters of those who elect them. The knights of globalization are willing to destroy even the remnants of Res Publica and they will definitely do it until the day when every sovereign people takes a stand against its economic and political exploiters and revolts against them in order to enter into possession of its economic and political capital.

Totally appropriating the power of the sovereign for itself after the abolition of the monarchy, the bourgeoisie immediately constituted the theatre of representative grotesque pseudo-democracy – a theatre, for which all other classes used to pay and still pay a high price. For the totalitarian power of only one class is possible only as political slavery for all other members of the community who do not belong to it; it destroys the practical political will of the sovereign people as a whole and every man, every its member in particular. The people does not belong to itself but to its dominating class; its sovereign public property, its political capital is robbed to the last bit and becomes property of the exploiters with the result that the ability of the bourgeois governments to control and dominate the defenceless unorganised masses is unlimited because the will for power begets will for more power. Thus, the infinite political capital of the sovereign people belongs totally and thoroughly to the ruling class, whose governments do not perform the will of those governed but first and foremost the will of the rulers. The ruling class take and have the unlimited lion share, the leavings are for the masses, which deserve their fate as long as they do not want to and, therefore, are not able to fight for a more dignified and better life.

In a capitalist society everybody is forced to be a private person only while all other people are for him only a means for achieving his ends. In a humanist society the sovereign people determines the laws of the economic society, not the other way round; everybody is not only an end for himself but his ends are in full accordance with the highest end of the community – the common good, his will is reconciled with the universal will. Achievement of the common good is definitely one of Man's absolute ends.

"Power to the people" is not an empty slogan in a humanist state. All the power does belong to the sovereign people and – unlike its sham power in the exploiting political order of modern capitalism – the sovereign people possesses its sacred and inviolable power to create more power not only in the election day but permanently and absolutely and as an owner of political capital has no masters but rules itself aiming at the welfare of all its members.

Modern peoples! Do not allow your political capital to be privatised. Expropriate your expropriators and deprive them of their power over your enormous political capital illegitimately robbed by them. Be sufficiently strong and wise in order to organise the principle of power of the people for the people and through the people, implement the principle of actual people's sovereignty and maintain control over your own governments. Do not allow to be forced to lead pathetic economic being only; you are the supreme sovereigns and have a sovereign right to free political life and public happiness.

Do not be satisfied with the leavings which they give you of the enormous political and economic wealth, which you create. Build up a new world of just wealth distribution.

Be sovereign! The greatest political capital of sovereign peoples is their wills – the permanent desire of the general will of the peoples – to cognise, will and implement the laws of the truly universal will; there has never been and will never be a more just political capital on Earth than that. The more political capital you invest in the universal will, the more humanist your states are.

To you belong the sovereign ethical and political power. Do not give up collectively your own sovereignty and power and place it irretrievably in the Bourgeoisie, whose governments are still held to be immune from suit for the consequences of their illegitimate acts.

It is your supreme right and duty: to possess, dispose of and use your political capital freely and responsibly. The more you participate in political debating societies, citizen's initiatives, non-government organisations or political movements, the more political capital you use and invest in your future, the future of your nation as well as the future of humanity. This is the best way to fulfil your obligations as an owner of political capital to produce more political capital and increase the general welfare of the people.

Human nature is profoundly inclined to desire and admire power. So you must be the power; to you must it belong, not to your exploiters. Have the courage to confront and fight heroically the de-humanizing nature of rampant capitalism. Your historical mission is to build humanistic societies which are in total possession of their political capital.

Only you, the people, are the legitimate sovereign and have the exclusive right to exercise supreme political – legislative, judicial, and executive – authority over yourself. Today's representative democracy is what the absolute monarchy used to be before the Great French revolution; both are founded on the alienation and expropriation of the will of the sovereign people, i.e. on theft of pure and sacred public property.

Expropriate the expropriators and enter in possession of your property.

And when your will for humanist democracy becomes universal and irresistible, nothing will be able to resist your power to rule yourselves and be in complete possession of your political capital.

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