Individual Freedom - Program

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Individual Freedom political and economic program:

This is an example of a simple and practical political program most people can support.

Private property

Everybody can register the same amount of private property, like cars, houses, apartments, boats, etc.. Special rules for children of different ages, they get a part of a grownup's amount of property to be handled by the parents. When this program is implemented the ones who have less than the average can register more private property for free until they reach the common limit, the average. Those who have too much can only register the same amount as everybody else so they must give the rest to the society.

Consumption

Everybody has the same right to consumption of consumption stuff, like food, clothes, etc.. Most simple consumption stuff is not checked in any way, just get it for free at the supermarket. A few things like airplane travelling, russian caviar, must be divided fairly among all people, using a personal consumption card.

Individual freedom

Everybody can choose for themselves what to do. There is no money system, all work is voluntary.

We simply assume that enough people will work in the production of food to satisfy the needs for everybody. This needs less than 2% of the people and the food production is being further rationalized with time.

The rest of the production depends on what people want to produce, it is up to each person to contribute in any way he likes to the society.

He or she can also choose to do nothing if he likes. Freedom of the individual is more important than production results, and we are still convinced that enough people will contribute with things that are useful for us all.

Look at the open source and freeware software production, for example. Millions of software writers are already today producing software without getting paid for it. A lot of people like to do things that are useful, or which generate happiness, like musicians, for example.

Laws

We must have some laws, like you must drive on the right side of the road, you may not steal other's property, you may not hurt anyone or threaten anyone. No laws against drug use, it is up to the individual.

Enterprise

Anybody can start a new company for production or other activities. Apart from your own private resources you can ask for extra resources from the democratic institutions, like the town hall, the national government, etc.. You can ask for help from other people to achieve more than you can alone. The company must be run democratically if more than one person is involved. And, of course, you cannot make any profit, there is no money system, but you can produce something you think is good for people.

Democracy

The society is run democratically, and the common resources are ultimately managed by the democratic institutions, which can delegate the running of things to single persons or companies, as suitable in each case.

Copyright

There are no laws about copyright and patents. Everything published is the property of all of us, it belongs to the human race. This means you are free to copy and distribute computer programs, music, movies, etc as you like. The authors have no need for compensation as they are guaranteed material equality as everybody else.

How-to implement this program

Start a new party in your country with this program. When you have a majority you can implement it. We have democracy already in most countries in the world, so this can be done peacefully and legally. Violence or illegal struggle for this program is useless, we need the majority of the people behind this program before it can be implemented.

Explanations

This program is intended to be a program for any and all countries, and ideally for the whole world, in the post-capitalist era. This program does not suffer from a lot of problems in the capitalist system, like problems with interest rates, inflation, wages, mortgages, insurance companies, etc..

Earlier web site For people wanting more background we can recommend an earlier web site about this program: http://hem.passagen.se/rj77/