Chapter 2: Idea of the Commons' Convention
2.1. Theory of commons' sovereignty
In this chapter, we will discuss the theory of the Commons' Convention /the World Commonwealth beginning with the ideals embedded in the Commons' Convention, which serve as the first starting point. The Commons' Convention is a social management organization that forms the core of governance without a state. As the name suggests, it is a kind of congress in which the commons plays a leading role.
As already expressed in this provision, the Commons' Convention is supported by the idea of commons' sovereignty, in which the commons are the main characters. In this respect, ideals that emphasize that the "demos (people)" are "masters" in some sense, such as citizen's sovereignty in bourgeois democracy and popular sovereignty in proletarian democracy, have been proposed in the past, but they have all ended up as empty rhetoric.
Citizen's sovereignty, while paying lip service to the sovereignty of the citizen in general, is in reality a shield for a class-based political system that treats capital and the wealthy as sovereign and marginalizes the common people as voting machines, keeping them out of political decision-making as much as possible.
On the other hand, while popular sovereignty is "revolutionarily" emphasizing that the worker-peasant proletariat (to put it simply, the common people) is the sovereign, the reality is that the leaders of the Communist Party and other ruling parties are the exclusive sovereign, and it has become a bad joke of "people's no rights" in which people are not even allowed to participate in politics.
Commons' sovereignty is a practical philosophy that eliminates such empty theories and seeks to actually place political leadership in the hands of the common people. Therefore, although it appears to be a similar concept, it is incompatible with the theory of citizen's sovereignty and the theory of popular sovereignty, and is likely to become a "dangerous" concept that is viewed as hostile by both.
However, as discussed in the previous chapter, Commons' sovereignty is not linked to so-called direct democracy. Commons' sovereignty requires a representative system in which the commons can participate more directly. We will refer to this as "semi-direct representative system," although the term is unfamiliar and may sound contradictory.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
