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Το Πράσινο Βιβλίο, An Essay on Direct Social Democracy

Author: Muammar Gaddafi

"Parliaments are the backbone of the conventional democracy that prevails today in the world. The parliament is a false representation of the people, and parliamentary governments are a counterfeit...

"Parliaments are the backbone of the conventional democracy that prevails today in the world. The parliament is a false representation of the people, and parliamentary governments are a counterfeit solution to the problem of democracy. A parliament is initially created to represent the people, but this in itself is undemocratic, since democracy means the...

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"Parliaments are the backbone of the conventional democracy that prevails today in the world. The parliament is a false representation of the people, and parliamentary governments are a counterfeit solution to the problem of democracy. A parliament is initially created to represent the people, but this in itself is undemocratic, since democracy means the power of the people and not a power that acts in their name."

"The very existence of a parliament signifies the absence of the people. True democracy exists only with the direct participation of the people and not through the activity of their representatives. Parliaments are a legal barrier between the people and the exercise of power that excludes the masses from serious political engagement and monopolizes the position of popular sovereignty."

The people are left with only a façade of democracy, which is expressed in long lines to cast their vote in the ballot box." "Real democracy has but one method and one theory. The heterogeneity and variety of systems that claim to be democratic serve as evidence that, in reality, they are not democratic.

"The power of the people has but one face, and this power can only be realized through Popular Assemblies and Popular Committees. There can be no democracy without the presence of Popular Assemblies and Popular Committees everywhere." "The transformation of existing societies of wage earners into societies of cooperative producers is inevitable as a dialectical outcome of the conflicting economic theories that prevail today in the world.

It is also a dialectical outcome of the unjust relations that are based on the system of wage labor. None of these issues have been resolved to this day." "The final step is for the new, socialist society to reach the stage where profit and money disappear. Society will become fully productive and the material needs of society will be fully satisfied.

In this final stage, profit will disappear, as will the need for money." "The heroes in history are, by definition, individuals who sacrifice themselves for certain causes. But for whose causes? They sacrificed for the sake of others. But for which others? Those with whom they maintain a bond.

Therefore, the relationship between an individual and a group is a social relationship that governs the transactions of people among themselves. Nationalism, thus, is the foundation upon which a nation emerges. Thus, common causes are national causes, and national relations are also social relations.

Social relations stem from society, that is, from the relationships among the members of a nation. Social relations are, therefore, national relations and national relations are social relations." "Nationalism in the world of people and the group instinct in the animal kingdom are like the force of gravity in the realm of material and heavenly bodies.

If the gravity of the sun ceases, its gases will explode and the unity of the world will no longer exist. Thus, unity constitutes the basis of survival. The factor of unity for any group is a social factor, and in the case of man, this factor is nationalism.

For this reason, human communities strive for their national unity, which constitutes the basis of survival." "Harmonizing with nature and its purposes, man and woman must be creative regarding their respective roles.

The opposite constitutes regression. This goes against nature and destroys the basis of freedom, as it opposes life and survival.

Man and woman must conduct themselves and not reject the respective role for which they were created. Any rejection of this respective role, even partially, occurs only as a result of coercive conditions and under abnormal circumstances.

A woman who rejects marriage, pregnancy, grooming, and femininity for health reasons abandons her natural role in life due to superior force or poor health. A woman who rejects marriage, pregnancy, or motherhood due to work is abandoning her natural role under similar coercive conditions.

A woman who, without any specific reason, rejects marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood, denies her natural role as a result of coercive conditions and moral distortion. Thus, the abandonment of the natural roles of female and male in life can only occur under non-normal conditions, which contradict freedom and pose a threat to survival.

Consequently, a global revolution is necessary that will put an end to all materialistic conditions that prevent women from fulfilling their natural role in life and that impose on them the execution of men's duties to be equal with them in rights.

Such a revolution will inevitably occur, especially in industrial societies, as a reaction of the instinct for survival, even without incitement for a revolution, in which the Green Book progresses." "State-controlled and systematic education is, in reality, a imposed dumbing down of the masses.

All governments that impose educational courses by forcing people to conform to the official curriculum and compel students to study it oppress their citizens. All teaching methods that prevail in the world must be abolished with a global cultural revolution that will liberate the human mind from studies of fanaticism and from methods of deliberate adjustment of taste, the ability to form concepts, and their mentality." "When the masses storm into sports arenas and devote themselves to sports, the stadiums will empty and be destroyed.

This will happen when the masses become aware of the fact that sports is a public activity that should be practiced and not just become a spectacle. This is a more logical alternative than the current habit of having a powerless and passive majority that simply observes."

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Author
Muammar Gaddafi
Publisher
Exodos Koinoniki Synetairistiki Epicheirisi
Original Title
The Green Book
Language
Greek
Subtitle
An Essay on Direct Social Democracy
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
125
Release Date
5/2021
Publication Date
2021
Dimensions
11x18 cm
ISBN-13
9786188502864

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"Parliaments are the backbone of the conventional democracy that prevails today in the world. The parliament is a false representation of the people, and parliamentary governments are a counterfeit solution to the problem of democracy. A parliament is initially created to represent the people, but this in itself is undemocratic, since democracy means the power of the people and not a power that acts in their name."

"The very existence of a parliament signifies the absence of the people. True democracy exists only with the direct participation of the people and not through the activity of their representatives. Parliaments are a legal barrier between the people and the exercise of power that excludes the masses from serious political engagement and monopolizes the position of popular sovereignty."

The people are left with only a façade of democracy, which is expressed in long lines to cast their vote in the ballot box." "Real democracy has but one method and one theory. The heterogeneity and variety of systems that claim to be democratic serve as evidence that, in reality, they are not democratic.

"The power of the people has but one face, and this power can only be realized through Popular Assemblies and Popular Committees. There can be no democracy without the presence of Popular Assemblies and Popular Committees everywhere." "The transformation of existing societies of wage earners into societies of cooperative producers is inevitable as a dialectical outcome of the conflicting economic theories that prevail today in the world.

It is also a dialectical outcome of the unjust relations that are based on the system of wage labor. None of these issues have been resolved to this day." "The final step is for the new, socialist society to reach the stage where profit and money disappear. Society will become fully productive and the material needs of society will be fully satisfied.

In this final stage, profit will disappear, as will the need for money." "The heroes in history are, by definition, individuals who sacrifice themselves for certain causes. But for whose causes? They sacrificed for the sake of others. But for which others? Those with whom they maintain a bond.

Therefore, the relationship between an individual and a group is a social relationship that governs the transactions of people among themselves. Nationalism, thus, is the foundation upon which a nation emerges. Thus, common causes are national causes, and national relations are also social relations.

Social relations stem from society, that is, from the relationships among the members of a nation. Social relations are, therefore, national relations and national relations are social relations." "Nationalism in the world of people and the group instinct in the animal kingdom are like the force of gravity in the realm of material and heavenly bodies.

If the gravity of the sun ceases, its gases will explode and the unity of the world will no longer exist. Thus, unity constitutes the basis of survival. The factor of unity for any group is a social factor, and in the case of man, this factor is nationalism.

For this reason, human communities strive for their national unity, which constitutes the basis of survival." "Harmonizing with nature and its purposes, man and woman must be creative regarding their respective roles.

The opposite constitutes regression. This goes against nature and destroys the basis of freedom, as it opposes life and survival.

Man and woman must conduct themselves and not reject the respective role for which they were created. Any rejection of this respective role, even partially, occurs only as a result of coercive conditions and under abnormal circumstances.

A woman who rejects marriage, pregnancy, grooming, and femininity for health reasons abandons her natural role in life due to superior force or poor health. A woman who rejects marriage, pregnancy, or motherhood due to work is abandoning her natural role under similar coercive conditions.

A woman who, without any specific reason, rejects marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood, denies her natural role as a result of coercive conditions and moral distortion. Thus, the abandonment of the natural roles of female and male in life can only occur under non-normal conditions, which contradict freedom and pose a threat to survival.

Consequently, a global revolution is necessary that will put an end to all materialistic conditions that prevent women from fulfilling their natural role in life and that impose on them the execution of men's duties to be equal with them in rights.

Such a revolution will inevitably occur, especially in industrial societies, as a reaction of the instinct for survival, even without incitement for a revolution, in which the Green Book progresses." "State-controlled and systematic education is, in reality, a imposed dumbing down of the masses.

All governments that impose educational courses by forcing people to conform to the official curriculum and compel students to study it oppress their citizens. All teaching methods that prevail in the world must be abolished with a global cultural revolution that will liberate the human mind from studies of fanaticism and from methods of deliberate adjustment of taste, the ability to form concepts, and their mentality." "When the masses storm into sports arenas and devote themselves to sports, the stadiums will empty and be destroyed.

This will happen when the masses become aware of the fact that sports is a public activity that should be practiced and not just become a spectacle. This is a more logical alternative than the current habit of having a powerless and passive majority that simply observes."

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Author
Muammar Gaddafi
Publisher
Exodos Koinoniki Synetairistiki Epicheirisi
Original Title
The Green Book
Language
Greek
Subtitle
An Essay on Direct Social Democracy
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
125
Release Date
5/2021
Publication Date
2021
Dimensions
11x18 cm
ISBN-13
9786188502864

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Specifications are collected from official manufacturer websites. Please verify the specifications before proceeding with your final purchase. If you notice any problem you can report it here.

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