counter-SOVEREIGNTY
and people power
Grimau Roso, 17/04/2011.
" SOVEREIGNTY: The free flow of legitimate power and authority to exercise independent and have full control of our rights in a free and independent and can be referred to both the person, as the collective, the people in general, the state or the nation. When this right, condition or status of sovereignty is referred to in its broadest form the nation, it is the supreme power to the legitimate exercise of this right applied both inside and outside a state or nation, in absolute, total and free determination of his government and its people, without any kind of foreign interference. " 1
The Self-Determination is also the sovereign right of every nation, State, Government and People , to decide on their key issues, both in domestic situations such as those relating to international relations without the presence of foreign interference. In this regard, both the exercise of sovereignty and the self-determination is a practice that we develop through the exercise of PODER POPULAR .
" SELF-DETERMINATION: This action and / or attitude is regarded as the principal sovereign and inalienable right of every nation, State, Government and / or Town, through its free exercise let us decide on our own key issues, both in the internal type as those relating to international relations, without there being any kind of interference or pressure from outside. This basic principle of modern international law was clearly established in the theory of "popular sovereignty" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and was widely employed throughout the process of the French Revolution. " 2
Call French Revolution between 1789 and 1799, was the process that ended with the obsolete feudal monarchical system, then laying the legal foundations of the new bourgeois system of representative democracy, which survives until today in most capitalist countries in the world, and from 1999 with the inauguration of the Constitutional President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the process of the Bolivarian revolution has been transforming into a new system of participatory democracy -Framed even in the bourgeois neo-liberalism, expanding the classic modern capitalist state made up of three branches, leading to a new model of five branches depending on the design developed by Simón Bolívar.
" self-determination : refers to the ability transferable and inalienable right of popular action to the full exercise of its sovereignty in making all decisions each and every one of the areas of human life (political, social, economic, ideological, scientific, etc.).. "3
B pole give a sneak peek at the current situation, where an international agency that is supposed to ensure world peace (the diminished UN) through a resolution of its board of uncertainty allows the indiscriminate bombing by U.S. and NATO against the people Libya to ironically protect its maximum national leader, hiding behind the demand for ouster of Gaddafi's intentions to dominate and control the global oil business.
" The world today in the service of organized crime, is a militarized world. The world spends every minute, three million dollars in military spending, the stage name of criminal charges, while fifteen children die every minute from hunger or curable disease. The five countries with veto in the UN are the main suppliers of weapons. That is, countries that do the business of war are those who strive for world peace. And a triple-crown monarchy deals with the other war, the war against the poor, who kills without noise. Five countries take decisions in the International Monetary Fund. In World Bank, sent seven. In the World Trade Organization, all countries have the right to vote but never voted. " 4
In terms of our individual responsibilities, our risks and hazards are much higher, due to harmful interference that neoliberal capitalism is present during every moment of our existence. Which is also assumed to be natural, being an integral part of our life within the capitalist system which skillfully builds a whole superstructure of manipulation and alienation ethics, moral, legal, educational, cultural, artistic, leisure and entertainment, so almost without realizing indoctrinate a submissive acceptance of exploitation and domination.
One of the most important aspects of modern domination strategy is the misappropriation and privatization of knowledge, action attacking a natural right of humanity is legitimized by a perverse and complex international legal framework of rules and regulations of intellectual property, copyright, patents, trade and industry, trademarks and licenses. Thus generating the legalization of private use of a certain knowledge, and providing a legal person that performs registration of an alleged exclusive capitalist exploitation and commercialization of such knowledge, which can be used economically only major capital and not its original creators , since they never have access to capital needed to reproduce the work.
Knowledge is the most valuable heritage of mankind. Knowledge refers to the entire accumulation during the evolution of the human species of perceptions, concepts, experiences, experiences, beliefs, creations, inventions, actions, ideas, and expressions of all kinds, as they result from the unique ability of humans to use our mental reasoning, developing the most precious treasure of all mankind: the knowledge, rainbow of all gemstones.
" KNOWLEDGE: It is an intrinsic process of human thought by which we reflect the reality, is coupled with our practical activity and is influenced by social norms, conscience and ideology. The object of knowledge is to achieve the objective truth. In the process the human being acquires knowledge, assimilate concepts real phenomena, and is understanding the world around him. Accumulating knowledge that we use to transform the world (power of knowledge) to subordinate nature to the needs of human beings in society. " 5
Great part of the knowledge accumulated by mankind is given us by the social transfer it, through our family, society and education systems; heritage that we offer for free under the premise of free education, or at least in societies more democratic gains, expanding each both access to education. Each of us only after receiving part of the heritage of humanity, we are able to produce or develop greater knowledge and greater increase this invaluable human treasure.
valid argument with that is that then someone can appropriate knowledge and turn it into private property for their own individual benefit, no matter at all the lives you could save with the release of this knowledge, this is directly visible in the field of medical knowledge and drug therapy, because the patents and trademarks that restrict the free use of a specific knowledge, give the award to that recorded in charge for just one time a few "rights", for large multinational corporations and mass reproduce it more expensive to manufacture a drug, medical instruments or equipment specialized medical, placing a trademark with the appropriators of exclusivity for the exploitation of the product in all markets. But it also applies in all fields of human activity through trade and industry patents, software licensing, etc.
" FREE KNOWLEDGE: is a modern trend of thought that believes that human knowledge is intangible heritage of all mankind, and therefore does not support that may be privatized in any way. The knowledge accumulated during the history of mankind is the social basis of our training, only after receiving the contribution of human knowledge we acquire the ability to produce new knowledge, and these must become part of universal heritage thereby returning the entire humanity's enormous contributions received. Opposes the capitalist practices of privatization of knowledge and the whole legal system of "intellectual property". " 6
The undue legitimacy of the privatization of knowledge, which is a public asset of humanity, creates a whole system of hegemonic domination of the industrial powers to the subjugation of the peoples of the world illegally forcing us to pay some "rights" that they appropriated to exploit and continue to fund the development of rich northern countries at the expense of the extreme poverty of the southern countries, all under the concept of intellectual property.
" INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY : In almost all the laws of the Latin American and Caribbean countries listed laws and regulations on so-called "intellectual property", which were created under the influence of private entrepreneurs to ensure that states protect the privatization of knowledge. It is preferable to use a concept more akin to human intellectual work, which is the term "General Intellect" proposed by Marx. Capitalism to increase profits turned to Knowledge in a commodity privatized, transformed the universities into mere knowledge factories, and the bourgeois states have implemented laws to avoid self-disclosure, with industry and commerce patents, software licensing laws in defense of "intellectual property" and "piracy" sustained by the international treaties with the World Trade Organization (WTO). Industrialized countries and transnational corporations use the Third World as a source of raw materials and cheap labor, but by no means give the necessary knowledge so that people can become independent and develop the technology needed to get out of backwardness and poverty. One of the main threats of the current capitalist domination against all humanity is the struggle against the Free Knowledge, threatening the very life and survival of peoples, preventing access to education and health, as well as the most basic and fundamental human rights as we have managed to enshrine in the Charter of Social Rights of the OAS. " 7
enough reasons to fight for technological sovereignty of our nations, and that while we allow the continued existence of an international legal system that legitimizes evil unjust and unworthy privatization of most precious heritage of humankind: knowledge, will continue perpetuating a criminal process of domination which undermines all the fundamental and basic human rights, such as full access to: life, earth, water, air, food, health, housing, employment, education, culture, energy, manufacturing, transportation, free knowledge, information, communication, science , technology, industry, development, ecology, freedom, sovereignty, peace, etc..
The development of our own individual sovereignty, counter will only be secured with the release of knowledge, sovereignty is the exercise of power, and knowledge is power. While knowledge can be privatized the power of that knowledge will be in those private hands, able to increase the domination and capitalist exploitation. So the struggle for FREE KNOWLEDGE is part of the struggle for socialism, the individual sovereignty of access to knowledge generated the sum of the collective powers of the people, free knowledge for people's power and SOCIALISM.
To build people's power should be taken into account the statement of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara , to help develop "The seeds of socialism" that are present in the village. The theoretical construction of popular power have to meet the expectations, aspirations and values \u200b\u200bpresent in the popular sectors, who suffer a greater degree the more unwanted effects of capitalist exploitation and domination system, so Socialism will only acquire meaning and represent the solution to these problems of the oppressed and excluded if you can solve them. Otherwise, it would be just exchanging one form of domination with another.
" POPULAR POWER : The power of organized people in the most diverse and dissimilar forms of participation to decision making in all areas (political, economic, social, environmental, organizational, international and others) for the full exercise of their sovereignty. People Power is a dialectic proposal, which must then transfer the functions of planning, budgeting, decision making, implementation and monitoring that are participating only the powers of the bourgeois state, gradually empowering the entire society knowledge of each of these functions. Transforming the system of representative democracy, under a participatory democracy, in pursuit of a socialist society. The concept of People's Power comes from the vision of the power model for the construction of the socialist system, based on the constitutional democratic concept which states that "sovereignty resides untransferable in the village, which originates all the People's Power." From which it follows that the People's Power underpin all forms of democratic organization of the State, Public Power and Society, all of them in the faithful repository of socialist democracy and popular sovereignty and are therefore obliged to accountability to the sovereign people. In this sense, the People's Power is exercised and expressed legitimately through all organized means of citizen participation and political leadership, the exercise is straightforward in the Assemblies and other bodies (Councils) of People's Power, and indirectly through the vote, both for election of representatives to the various bodies of popular power (government) and for making important decisions in the various types of referendum available in national legislation. " 8
Based on the above conceptualization drawn from our daily practice in recent years, as a theoretical contribution to the dialectic of the same practice, and under our slogan building the People's Power to Socialism , taking either clear what we understand from a Marxist point of view by the People , we proceed to discuss the urgent need in this moment of rupture with the bourgeois neo-liberal reality existing in all our public institutions, thereby giving a strong support the set of Basic Laws recently approved for People Power .
So, once enacted and the legal framework that will enable the transformation of all the bourgeois state power into real power of the Popular Power , who not only use that epithet electioneering pamphlet of "the people pa ' assembly," but we begin to mutate and inefficient bureaucratic structures of each of our branches and agencies, to become a real part of PODER POPULAR giving participation directly to the people within their specific roles in each of the 5 power of our country, displacing many of its elitist and technocratic institutions of power to the grassroots own unique and legitimate repositories of popular sovereignty and true self-determination peoples.
These new laws would thus to become one of the fundamental legal instruments for the establishment of new relations of equality and the daily practice of participatory democracy in our Venezuela, creating new management models for the transition to socialism with the direct participation of the new organs of power popular.
As important discussion within communities so that these laws put people's participation in a more dynamic social field according to the legal framework of our Bolivarian Constitution. This is not the only sovereign people involved to discuss, propose and promote legislation, but from these new Organic Laws of the People , he transferred to the people the opportunity to be gaining sovereign capacities propitiate, writing and consistent practice in a new legal dynamics, legal and socio-cultural, while defining the mechanisms of this participation, and give them final legal form in a Popular Revolutionary Assembly.
The communal parliament would be the space to exercise that dynamic leadership necessary for our communities not only have the social capacity to implement the revolutionary laws, but also acquire the ability to partner -cultural and legal to make laws, develop, propose and promote, being the new Revolutionary Popular Assembly final space where they pass together with organized communities, all laws since the enactment of this Act emanate directly from the legal exercise of popular sovereignty in its new legislative role revolutionary, thus beginning to create Socialist People's Court.
" COMMUNITY PARLIAMENT: The highest instance of self-government in the Commune, formed by the assemblies of citizens of the communities that comprise it, installed so character in their respective regions, whose decisions are expressed in terms of living standards and mandates public aspects of planning, coordination and execution of acts of government in the territorial space of the Commune. " 9
Becoming well the simple neoliberal bourgeois parliamentarism known as a derogatory term to which he was baptized since the last Assembly National as the " street parliaments " developed until 2010 as the basis of the work of our deputies on the street with people doing tedious workshops, reviewing a few articles and using techniques from academic and technocratic neoliberal impeding impeding freedom of critical thinking and the natural supply is not manipulated by closed castrating instruments of self-biased opinion.
The communal parliament, is one that should work daily in communities as a mechanism of true sovereignty popular for the direct active participation. So popular participation in the legislative framework must generate its own people, what would be the case leading popular exerted through Communal parliaments, including the Revolutionary Popular Assembly be a specific and unique expression whose duties to give the nation's laws to the transformations demanded by the masses throughout the course of history itself as part of humanity in the dialectical process of political evolution.
This communal parliament should be socially constructed through the daily exercise true popular sovereignty. Communities would be in their hands the draft laws, draft also born of our people organized, social practices popular capacity to produce texts of our laws, promote and implement, in a collective process of apprehending doing socially. They should be everywhere to evolve to this wonderful new kind of presidency, we will ensure a genuine popular sovereignty transferable, seeking copies of laws for the ongoing transformation of our reality.
We must open wide spaces for the participation of the communities that give impetus to community-government relations are not marked by the growing bureaucracy. Increasingly, the power must be transferred and appropriated by the communities, they turned to the dynamic center of their own practices in all its forms enhancing the capacity of popular government .
The basis of this whole proposal is the collective, the basis for everything. Everything is supported by the foundations of the Venezuelan people, there in her belly is the original constituent power, this powerful force capable of removing everything and change it. A strength is that we have to go, which is in the neighborhood in, in the field in, in the jungle, in every corner of the country are his signs, his strong arms must shake the old bourgeois structures that still exist and I do enormous damage to the Venezuelan society, that complex and contradictory dialectic must agree to find and always found a better world, there is where the other constituents given by the Commander Chávez and is activated every again.
This is the great creative power of the revolution to rediscover and relaunch. In this revolutionary era people should consolidate its progress, organized groups, our policies and our laws must match in this beautiful part: the Socialism XXI Century. It is the challenge of life itself and hope against a culture of death that they want to impose, rebelled against capitalism that has preyed on humanity and our living spaces.
"SOCIALISM : The doctrine of Marx and Engels about socialism, known as the theory of scientific socialism, points out that socialism is a superior system to the decadent and cruel capitalist system. In the disastrous socialism was replaced private ownership of the means of production by new forms of collective ownership of these means of production, and from an effective state planning and direction of laying the concrete material basis for achieving a society based on superior wealth, social equality and the full development of the individual. Socialism does not eliminate even the contradictions of class, but creates, gradually, the conditions necessary to eliminate them. No state rule also eliminates or relations production employed, or the division of labor between mental and manual labor, but lays the groundwork for subsequent disposal in the future communist society. Under socialism, you are asked to each delivery of all abilities and are compensated according to their work, which means the conservation of inequality among individuals, determined by individual differences and social background. In contrast, in the future communist society is asked to each according to their abilities, and they are paid according to their needs, thus eliminating the social antagonisms that existed in socialism. Corresponds to the political and economic ideology of a social movement begins marked with the French Revolution (1789). His greatest claim is to achieve equality, freedom and social justice, so that popular majorities exploited (Working Class) access to power and its total freedom, contrary to the imperialist order in which minorities are oppressing them (middle class). Socialism is one of the largest movements of critical thought in the history of humanity, passing milestones have occurred that transformed the lives of millions of people and culture worldwide. is a model of social relations of production focused on the coexistence of solidarity and the satisfaction of needs tangible and intangible assets of society, whose fundamental basis of the recovery value of work as a producer of goods and services to meet human needs and achieve the supreme social happiness and human development. This requires the development of social ownership of the means of production factors and basic and strategic, so that all families and all citizens of Venezuela possess, use and enjoy their property or separate property or family, and exercise the full enjoyment of their economic, social, political and cultural. " 10
This transformation should include the ability of our people to produce specific changes, and to combine efforts to produce the Bolivarian revolutionary citizenship that allows us to defeat the flow of services inherited from the fourth republic and a party system and leaders placed above the communities and people. Thus, the popular venues and community centers conceive them as facilitators of the other original constituents, there is contained all the creative force that will rise to bitter divisions product of an eternal conflict for power, the force that will lead us inexorably towards a model that goes beyond capitalism, which move in all equations and bury it with a new "geometry" can draw a happy people culturally, economically successful, and in socialism eternice the desire of our Libertador Simón Bolívar to achieve greater collective happiness as possible. " supreme social happiness : This assumption was taken as the second guideline of the First Plan of the National Socialist, National Project" Simón Bolívar ", which defines the general lines Plan Economic and Social Development of the Nation 2007-2013. Refers to long-term vision that has as its starting point the construction of a new inclusive social structure, forming a socialist society including a new social model, productive, socialist, humanist, endogenous; where we all live in similar living conditions with full access to all social rights, on the way to build what it claimed our Liberator Simon Bolivar in his famous speech of Angostura, on February 15, 1819, during the installation of the second Constituent Congress of the Republic of Venezuela: "The most perfect system of government is one that produces the greatest amount of possible happiness, the greatest amount of social security and greater amount of political stability. . "
In this sense, planning on the conceptual development of popular power and a new Assembly Revolutionary People was that in January 2006, I approach the parliamentary group of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and its respective group of opinion, with the idea that in the discussion of the new internal regulations and Assembly debate National legislative dynamics were changed so that regular meetings be divided into two types, that the Legislative Palace to continue doing in the first fortnight of every month the same regular plenary sessions, and in the second half of each month is devoted to develop Parliamentarism Popular sessions of deputies to the mass electorate in the circuits where they were elected, although that proposal was well received in the PCV, this was unsuccessful at that time within the legislative body as The directive flatly refused to accept something like that, but before the new proposal for a Community Parliament it seems appropriate take it up, so that failure to attend the popular sessions will greatly reduce the collection of fees for failure to attend sessions, pushing them even in their pockets to meet the new mandate of a parliamentary government Popular under a Revolutionary Popular Assembly .
Terminology 1 People's Power. Victor Barraez and Roso Grimau. National Assembly, 11/2010, Caracas, Venezuela.
3 Terminology People's Power. Victor Barraez and Roso Grimau. National Assembly, 11/2010, Caracas, Venezuela.
5 Terminology People's Power. Victor Barraez and Roso Grimau. National Assembly, 11/2010, Caracas, Venezuela.
10 Terminología del Poder Popular. Victor Barraez y Roso Grimau. Asamblea Nacional, 11/2010, Caracas, Venezuela.
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