The
following is a description of the philosophy of Nonapartism (which might as well be called "Unincorporatism", due to its support of unincorporated people, groups, businesses, and land), followed
by an explanation of the types of political representatives which I
theorize would likely be present in a Nonapartist governance structure which
focuses on representing the Third Sector and promoting
reconciliation between various anarchist schools of thought / methods
of economy.
“Nonapartism”
intentionally refers to the lack of apartheid (apartness) in
relations between sectors – and connotes nonpartisanship - although
its technical meaning denotes that it is a nine-part version of
“tripartism”, the neo-liberal/neo-corporatist political synthesis
which exists in social market economies.
The
tripartist synthesis exists as the representatives of organized labor
coming together in a negotiative
manner with government and the representatives of organized
business in order to jointly
regulate the civil social economy.
Nonapartism
aims to achieve collaborative regulation of access to the means and
factors of production, distribution, and exchange, in order to ensure
free, equal, and uninhibited access, and liberty to utilize, possess,
and occupy.
Nonapartism
rejects communal, cooperative, social, or public “ownership” or
“control” of the means of production (i.e., communism,
cooperativism, socialism, and Statism), in that each is a form of
rentier Capitalism which denies and severely limits the right to
personal property rights in allodial title, attacking private
property rights in the name of the commons.
The
attack on private property rights is problematic because it assumes
that private property ownership (the right to exclude) will always be
used to exclude. Nonapartism aims to establish a society in which
periodic access to private property is the sole condition for the
legitimacy of rights thereto. This is to say that demonstrating
judicious exclusion legitimizes the right to private property.
Nonapartism
was designed as an attempt to improve upon tripartism, in that it
provides for better and more diverse representation of the sectors of
society which oppose the corporate State, and the environment of
corruption and collusion between government and business which it
fosters.
Nonapartism
desires to render tripartism incomplete and irrelevant, by abolishing
the distinction between capital and labor, through making labor own
its own capital and be
its own capital. Nonapartism blends the functions, forms, and manners
of representing associations of labor and capital alike.
Nonapartism
holds that organized labor should not be the only actor present in
policy negotiations aside from government and business. Therefore,
nonapartism criticizes calls for “worker control of the means of
production” and “worker ownership of factories”. This is
because workers' unions represent the interests of workers; not
necessariy the interests of non-working people, consumers, investors,
taxpayers, other actors the community or society at large (some of
these groups even have an interest in keeping the price and cost of
labor low).
Although
we are not all workers, we are all consumers of consumer goods. Even
those of us who forage and hunt for food are compulsory customers of
government services.
Those who file for unemployment, the unemployed who have stopped
looking for work, the social welfare recipients whose income is based
on the minimum wage, the unemployed homeless, and ex-convicts are all
stakeholders in public policy of society.
Nonapartism
desires that all people finding themselves insufficiently represented
by big government, big business, and big unions educate themselves
about voluntary association, and the voluntary/social sector (or
Third Sector). Nonapartism advocates for the organization,
unionization, and formalized representation of marginalized
non-working, non-taxpaying, non-investing people's interests.
Nonapartism
is against the interests of pro-corporate, pro-big-union, and
pro-big-government unions; the tripartist scheme to take tax revenue,
profit, and union dues from every person, robbing them of the freedom
to represent themselves in so many important ways. Nonapartism
advocates that the disadvantaged unionize to demand from the
tripartists what is necessary for them to perform the lowest
skill-level jobs; i.e., access to housing, education, job skills
training, and everything else employed people are expected to have in
order to be a functional member of society.
Nonapartism
asserts that anything people are ordered and expected to possess,
they have the right to demand, at no cost to themselves, and paid for
through the labor of those doing the ordering and having the
expectation.
Nonapartism
advocates for anarcho-cooperativist and anarcho-corporativist groups
to regulate neo-liberal and neo-corporatist groups. Respectively,
these groups support the regulation of organized labor by
liberal-bourgeois elements favoring Statism, closedness, and
compulsion in organization; and the regulation of business by
conservative-bourgeois elements favoring Statism and protectionist
and crony-capitalist interests.
Nonapartism
is informed by the fact that Medieval-era guild unions practiced each
social-benefit employee organization, professional self-regulation,
and cartelization. As professional associations, the guilds trained
their future members in the trades. As trade unions, they set rules
on wages, hours, and working conditions, provided for the care of
widows and orphans, and provided a support group for people living
outside the manors to rely on each other for assistance. As cartels,
they got together to control all such trade in a given town, and to
make sure anyone wishing to trade speak with, pay, and get permission
from the guilds themselves first.
Nonapartism
supports the utilization of existing and theorized social
organizations to regulate the professions, provide for the interests
of the workers and the people in general, and organize majorities in
the markets to form justifiable cartels demanding mutualism and
promoting autonomy and egalitarianism, resulting in increased
accuracy and reduced cost of representation of the diverse sectors of
the economy (aside from labor and capital) and low prices for all
market participants.
Nonapartism
criticizes the notion that the low wages paid by Wal-Mart represent
the natural result of a competitive market in wages; but rather that
it represents unjustifiable, excessive corporate “profit”-taking.
The approximately $17 average hourly wage for entry-level labor at
CostCo helps illustrate how the function of large retail distributors
resembles that of a cooperative wholesale society.
This
is to say that Nonapartism advocates for consumers to voluntary
cooperate (direct action; boycott; counter-economics; radical
redistribution, homesteading, and reclamation) in their purchase
habits – pooling their money, productive assets, and force of
consumer demand – in order to lower prices on goods through the
establishment of price-ceilings (or cartels) on the markets.
This
would help achieve the widest possible distribution of the factors
and means of production, especially if large retail distributors sold
wide varieties of machines (such as 3-D printing machines, to which
free access could be also provided at libraries and common places).
Nonapartism
supports cooperative anarcho-corporativism, anarchy without
adjectives, synthesis anarchism, with equal influence of all sectors
of economic society on policy.
Nonapartism
advocates that all resources be allocated to the people by freely,
fairly, and amicably competing anarchist individuals, Agorists,
freelancers, entrepreneurs, mutuals, co-operatives, communes,
autonomous unions and guilds, and cooperative corporations, which
would be encouraged to stay autonomous but join confederations.
Nonapartism
hopes to attract individualist anarchists, voluntaryists,
anarcho-capitalists, market-anarchists, left-Rothbardians,
panarchists, social democrats, anarcho-communists, mutualist
anarchists, market socialists, New Mutualists, industrial unionists, Egoists and Egoist communists, anarcho-syndicalists, anarcho-cooperativists,
anarcho-corporativists, anarcho-monarchists, Discordian anarchists, religious anarchists,
and disaffected tripartists.
Summary of Types of the
Nine Organelles
of
Nonapartist
Cooperativist Anarcho-Corporatism
Organizers
Representatives
of networks of autonomous distributors', managers', and employers'
unions; and political and non-political professional societies
(including industrial trade unions and autonomous guilds) and
voluntary associations
regulate
compulsory
and State-supported distributors', managers', and employers' unions,
and political and non-political professional associations
(including industry trade groups, guilds, and unions)
Investors
a. Lenders
Representatives
of networks of autonomous financiers', lenders, and creditors'
unions; and collaboratively-managed citizens' dividend
cooperative corporations
regulate
State-endorsed
financiers' interest groups, lenders' and creditors' interest
groups, and stock corporations.
b. Borrowers
Representatives
of networks of autonomous bondholders', customers', and suppliers'
stakeholders' unions
regulate
State-endorsed taxpayers'
unions, borrowers' and debtors' unions, and suppliers' unions
Enterprises
a. Hierarchical
Enterprises
Representatives
of networks of autonomous entrepreneurs' and business societies
and unions
regulate
State-supported
entrepreneurs', business, and sector associations and unions.
b. Egalitarian
Enterprises
Representatives
of networks of voluntary-cooperative mutual aid and benefit
societies, social venture enterprise unions, and business and
sector societies regulate
State-supported
unions of cooperative, mutual, and social enterprises.
Workers
a. Organized
Workers
Representatives
of networks of autonomous unions, syndicates, and anarchist guilds
regulate
State-endorsed
compulsory and craft unions, nationalist would-be syndicates, and
union- shop and closed-shop unions and guilds.
b. Unorganized
Workers
Representatives
of networks of autonomous unions, collectives, and communes of
egoists; freelancers' unions; and open-shop, and dual- and
minority-unionist, and members-only-unionist workplace
regulate
State-endorsed
compulsory and craft unions, nationalist would-be syndicates,
and union- shop and closed-shop unions and guilds
Consumers
Representatives
of networks of autonomous consumer cooperatives; and consumer
protection / advocacy and product quality rating interest /
focus groups
regulate
State-endorsed
consumer protective agencies and consumer cooperatives, as well as
interest
groups and lobbying agencies.
b. Unorganized
Consumers
Representatives
of networks of homeless and unemployed persons' unions and
syndicates, and criminal rehabilitation advocates
regulate
State-endorsed
social welfare, accuseds', ex-convicts' unions and interest groups.
Detailed Description of
Types and Examples of Classes
and of
Vehicles of Anarchist
Representation
(Which Would Check the
Vehicles of Political Representation)
1. Organizers
I. Examples:
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly centralized)
Reserve-army-of-labor
capitalist managers
Employers'
organizations / associations / federations
Guild
unions and professional unions and associations
(ex.:
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations,
American
Medical Association, Screen Actors' Guild, etc.)
– Attorneys'
judges', politicians', and government workers' unions
(ex.:
National Federation of Federal
Employees; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees; American Bar Association; American Trial Lawyers
Association; National Lawyers' Union)
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Non-profit
and non-for-profit cooperative wholesale societies and distributors
– Federations,
confederations, and leagues of unions of egalitarian cooperative
managers
– Federations,
confederations, and leagues of autonomous guild unions,
social- anarchist guilds, and autonomous professional unions /
societies
– Jurors' nullification and
information rights, and rights of the accused interest and
advocacy groups
(ex.: American Civil Liberties
Union, Never Take a Plea [Bargain] advocates and groups, and
pro-se defense advocates and
groups)
2. Investors
A. Lenders
(Statists
and capitalists involved in public and private finance, credit
and lending, stock exchanges)
I. Examples:
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly centralized)
National
and international financiers' interest groups, lobbying agencies,
and PACs
(ex.: World
Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization)
Lenders'
and creditors' interest groups, lobbying agencies, and PACs
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– High-liability
publicly-managed citizens' dividend cooperative corporations
– Autonomous
financiers' unions and financiers' syndicates, pro- local finance
interest
groups
– Autonomous lenders' and
creditors' unions, and lenders' and creditors' syndicates
B. Borrowers
(Workers
and non-working small and medium-sized market participating civilians
involved in paying taxes, borrowing and incurring debt,
considering buying stock)
I. Examples:
– Stakeholders
(bondholders, customers, suppliers, etc.)
– Taxpayers
– Borrowers
and debtors
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly
centralized) – Shareholders, customers', and bondholders' unions
– Taxpayers'
unions, and anti-tax and low-tax interest groups, lobbying agencies,
PACs, and political parties
(ex.:
National Taxpayers Union)
– Borrowers'
and debtors' unions; and pro- national and international debt relief,
forgiveness,
and co-payment interest groups, lobbying agencies, and PACs
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Autonomous
combination bondholders' / customers' / suppliers' unions and guilds
– Autonomous
tax- and fee- payers' unions, revolutionary tax- and fee- protesting
activist groups, counter-economic and Agorist groups
– Autonomous
borrowers' and debtors' unions, pro- local interpersonal debt relief
and
co-payment interest groups
3. Enterprises
A. Hierarchical
Enterprises
(Productive
entrepreneurial, capitalist business, and corporate firms)
I. Examples:
– Small
enterprises
– Middle-sized
and large businesses
– Publicly-traded
corporations
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly
centralized) – Entrepreneurs' associations, pro-small-business
interest groups, lobbying agencies, and PACs
(ex.:
National Federation of Independent Businesses)
– Industry
trade groups and pro-business interest groups, lobbying agencies, and
PACs
– Business
unions / partnerships / alliances / associations
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Entrepreneurs'
societies, pro-small-business interest groups
– Federations,
confederations, and leagues of industrial / labor / trade / craft
unions, pro- worker-run and employee-owned business interest
groups
– Federations,
confederations, and leagues of autonomous business unions /
partnerships / alliances / associations
B. Egalitarian
Enterprises
(Productive
cooperative, mutual, and social enterprise firms)
I. Examples:
Cooperative
enterprises / cooperative businesses / cooperative corporations
(ex.:
Mondragon [cooperative] Corporation)
Mutuals
/ mutual banking and credit institutions / mutual organizations
Social
enterprises / social purpose ventures / social profit ventures
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly centralized)
Market-socialist
political interest groups, business associations of mutuals
Business
associations of social venture-capital firms
(ex.:
National Venture Capital Association)
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Federations
and confederations of autonomous business and sector societies and
cooperative
corporations
– Federations
and confederations of autonomous mutual aid and benefit societies
– Federations and confederations of
autonomous social-venture enterprises
4. Workers
A. Organized
Workers
(Productive
unionized, organized, corporatist, and union-dependent workers)
I. Examples:
Union
workers and laborers
Guild-union
journeymen, apprentices, and masters
Syndics
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly centralized)
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Autonomous
labor / trade / industrial unions
– Autonomous
guild unions and social-anarchist guilds
– Anarchist and revolutionary
syndicates
(ex.: Industrial Workers of the
World / Wobblies)
B. Unorganized
Workers
(Non-unionized,
unorganized, anti-organizational / anti-corporatist, and autonomous
and independent workers)
I. Examples:
– Individuals
– Freelancers
– Free-riding
workers
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly
centralized) – Representationally democratic voting, private
property ownership, pro-
individualist
interest groups, lobbying agencies, and PACs
– Pro- New
Mutualist freelancers' unionism interest groups, lobbying agencies,
and PACs
– Pro-
compulsory unionism interest groups, lobbying agencies, and PACs
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Autonomous
egoist unions / communes / collectives
– Autonomous
freelancers' unions
– Federations
and confederations of open-shop and dual- and minority-unionist
workplaces
5. Consumers
A. Organized
Consumers
(Organized consumers of predominantly private-sector goods and
services)
I. Examples:
Consumer
cooperatives
Consumer
interest, protection, and advocacy groups
Consumer
research and focus groups
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly centralized)
Public
and public-private consumer protection boards
(ex.:
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Departments of Consumer
Affairs, credit rating agencies, Better Business Bureau)
Pro-
public consumer research interest groups, lobbying agencies, and
PACs
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Federations
and confederations of consumers' anarcho-cooperatives
– Diffuse
networks of community- and market-based consumer interest /
protection
/ advocacy
groups, including diffuse networks of business quality
and credit rating agencies practicing competing standards
– Diffuse networks of
market-oriented consumer research and focus groups and
surveying agencies
B. Unorganized
Consumers
(Unorganized consumers of predominantly public-sector [government]
services)
I. Examples:
– The
unemployed
– The
homeless
– Convicted
criminals
II. Vehicles
of Political Representation
(State-licensed,
compulsory / involuntary, and / or overly centralized) – Pro-
unemployment insurance social welfare interest groups, lobbying
agencies,and PACs
– Pro-
housing-relief social welfare interest groups, lobbying agencies, and
PACs
– Ex-convicts'
unions
(ex.: Voice of
the Ex-Offender [V.O.T.E.])
III. Vehicles
of Anarchist Representation
(non-State-permitted,
voluntary, and / or decentralized / diffused)
– Autonomous
unemployed persons' unions and unemployed persons' syndicates
– Autonomous
homeless persons' unions and homeless persons' syndicates
– Autonomous families of the accused's unions
For more information on related ideas by the author of this blog, go
to:
Feudalism
and the Class War
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/04/feudalism-and-class-war.html
Market
Anarchy “Without Adjectives”
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2013/03/market-panarchy-without-adjectives.html
Party
for Mutualism and Cooperation
aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2013/09/proposal-for-cooperative-party-of-oregon.html
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