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The Green Book - Muammar al-Qaddafi
The Green Book
Muammar al-Qaddafi
1
Contents
The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Au-
thority of the People
1 The Instrument Of Government
7
2 Parliaments
9
3 The Party
13
4 Class
17
5 Plebiscites
21
6 Popular Conferences And People’s Committees
23
7 The Law Of Society
27
8 Who Supervises The Conduct Of Society?
31
9 How Can Society Redirect Its Course When Devia-
tions From Its Laws Occur?
33
10 The Press
35
The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism
11 The Economic Basis Of The Third Universal Theory
41
12 Need
49
13 Housing
51
14 Income
53
15 Means Of Transportation
55
16 Land
57
17 Domestic Servants
65
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CONTENTS
The Social Basis of The Third Universal Theory
18 The Social Basis Of The Third Universal Theory
69
19 The Family
73
20 The Tribe
75
21 The Merits Of The Tribe
77
22 The Nation
79
23 Woman
85
24 Minorities
95
25 Black People Will Prevail In The World
97
26 Education
99
27 Music And Art
101
28 Sport, Horsemanship And The Stage
103
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Part I
The Solution of the Problem of
Democracy: The Authority of the People
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1
The Instrument Of Government
The instrument of government is the prime political problem confronting human communities (The problem of the instrument of government entails questions of the following kind.
What form should the exercise of authority assume? How ought societies to organize themselves politically in the modern world?)
Even conflict within the family is often the result of the failure to resolve this problem of authority. It has clearly become more serious with the emergence of modern societies.
People today face this persistent question in new and pressing ways. Communities are exposed to the risks of uncertainty, and suffer the grave consequences of wrong answers. Yet none has succeeded in answering it conclusively and democratically. THE
GREEN BOOK presents the ultimate solution to the problem of the proper instrument of government.
All political systems in the world today are a product of the struggle for power between alternative instruments of government. This struggle may be peaceful or armed, as is evidenced among classes, sects, tribes, parties or individuals. The outcome is always the victory of a particular governing structure – be it that of an individual, group, party or class – and the defeat of the people; the defeat of genuine democracy.
Political struggle that results in the victory of a candidate with, for example, 51 per cent of the votes leads to a dictato-7
CHAPTER 1. THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT
rial governing body in the guise of a false democracy, since 49
per cent of the electorate is ruled by an instrument of government they did not vote for, but which has been imposed upon them. Such is dictatorship. Besides, this political conflict may produce a governing body that represents only a minority. For when votes are distributed among several candidates, though one polls more than any other, the sum of the votes received by those who received fewer votes might well constitute an over-whelming majority. However, the candidate with fewer votes wins and his success is regarded as legitimate and democratic!
In actual fact, dictatorship is established under the cover of false democracy. This is the reality of the political systems prevailing in the world today. They are dictatorial systems and it is evident that they falsify genuine democracy.
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2
Parliaments
Parliaments are the backbone of that conventional democracy prevailing in the world today. Parliament is a misrepresentation of the people, and parliamentary systems are a false solution to the problem of democracy. A parliament is originally founded to represent the people, but this in itself is undemocratic as democracy means the authority of the people and not an authority acting on their behalf. The mere existence of a parliament means the absence of the people. True democracy exists only through the direct participation of the people, and not through the activity of their representatives. Parliaments have been a legal barrier between the people and the exercise of authority, excluding the masses from meaningful politics and monopolizing sovereignty in their place. People are left with only a facade of democracy, manifested in long queues to cast their election ballots.
To lay bare the character of parliaments, one has to exam-ine their origin. They are either elected from constituencies, a party, or a coalition of parties, or are appointed. But all of these procedures are undemocratic, for dividing the population into constituencies means that one member of parliament represents thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people, depending on the size of the population. It also means that a member keeps few popular organizational links with the electors since he, like other members, is considered a representative of the whole people. This is what the prevailing traditional 9
CHAPTER 2. PARLIAMENTS
democracy requires. The masses are completely isolated from the representative and he, in turn, is totally removed from them.
Immediately after winning the electors’ votes the representative takes over the people’s sovereignty and acts on their behalf. The prevailing traditional democracy endows the member of parliament with a sacredness and immunity which are denied to the rest of the people. Parliaments, therefore, have become a means of plundering and usurping the authority of the people. It has thus become the right of the people to struggle, through popular revolution, to destroy such instruments – the so-called parliamentary assemblies which usurp democracy and sovereignty, and which stifle the will of the people. The masses have the right to proclaim reverberantly the new principle: no representation in lieu of the people.
If parliament is formed from one party as a result of its winning an election, it becomes a parliament of the winning party and not of the people. It represents the party and not the people, and the executive power of the parliament becomes