There can be no peace unless there is no war. And where there has been conflicting interests, there has been war: war among the rival nations, rival corporations, rival neighborhoods, and rival individuals.
There are two kinds of peace: the unstable peace imposed by one power over the other, and the stable peace subscribed to willingly by all parties because it benefits all.
In their communist thesis, Marx and Engles claimed competition to be the cause of economical injustice. Communism calls for elemination of competition: to each according to his needs, from each according to his ability. The idea perpetuated in this article is this: to each according to each's productivity.
The true communism is practiced in every family, but is impractical outside of it. It was risky for a Soviet worker to do a good job because it would make everyone else look bad. Seemingly, that was the only are where competition was undermined. The Soviets did not succeed, or could afford, to eleminate it in some other major areas.
We can have both competition, fairness, and peace because there are two forms of competition: combative and unidirectional. Peace can break down when interests conflict. Whether the interests compete one way or the other depends on which form of competition is allowed by the prevailing law. That is, we can have a universal system of law (includes economy) in which the combative competition is eleminated.
Sports provide simple examples of these two forms of competition: boxing and hockey for combative one, running and baseball for unidirectional one.
There can never be true peace without true justice. There can never be true justice without universal adoption of true democracy called isocracy (equal rule). And isocracy would be impractical unless it is based on unidirectional competition.
Unicomp is a system of government and business based on isocracy (true democracy) and unidirectional competition. The following is a short presentation of Unicomp. Further information on it are provided in other internet pages listed at the end of this page.
1. Forms of Competition.
War is a competition over different forms of wealth as are all fights among different interests: employees and employers, different neighborhoods, different corporations, different political parties, and different nations. Lies and deceptions are combative tools as are bullets and bombs.
None of the existing systems, not even our so-called "democracy" can provide peace and justice. The American civil war and slavery prove the point.
Communism was a response to the harsh injustices of capitalism, and proved to be a medicine worse than the disease. Now, communism is dead, and we are back to the harsh realities of capitalism. And capitalism is prostituting our false "democracy".
It was the horrors of self-serving competition in the industrial Europe that prompted Marx and Engels to father communism, and in it eliminate competition. Yet, we are indebted to communism for proving that the removal of competition from any industry results in its deterioration.
2. Unidirectional or combative Competition.
Competition can be both good and evil. Because, there are two kinds of competition which are diametrically opposed; combative competition and unidirectional competition. Both kinds of competition are applied to production, marketing, politics, etc., and both are productive. But there are major differences.
Unidirectional competition is peaceful, and progressive. Combative competition is aggressive, pro war, pro injustice, and is what makes life harsh and horrible for many. Yet, there has never been any attempts to distinguish these two kinds of competition, and write a universal constitution intolerant of combative competition.
Combative competition is our wilderness heritage. Whenever and wherever needed, all animals compete combatively. We have elevated ourselves above the animals, yet we have kept with us the animal form of competition which makes us behave like animals. We should let go of it, and build a world civilization based on unidirectional competition.
However, this does not mean that we all must follow the same direction. Anyone and any business can go in any direction so long as they do not engage in combative competition (lies, deceptions, damages, blood sheds, etc). In particular, it means that the politicians cannot compete combatively.
But is unidirectional competition practical? That is, have all peoples evolved adequately to the point of leaving combative mentality behind?
We all can act willfully, and subject our instincts to our will. Otherwise, we would not have an ornganized society. People choose to do good or evil. And those who do evil do so because our inferior culture allows them to justify or rationalize their evil, and because they know chances are that they can get away with it and profit from it.
The practicality of any system depends on subscription of the people to it. People can make any system practical. Everything practical today was once an impossible dream.
Courts have always used punishment as the means to make the members of their community compliant. But the better way is to develop the public conscience, the police inside everyone's brain. Moreover, a just system is its own best protection. Because, a right order is hard to break whereas a crooked order invites violation. Consider the following models.
3. The Bus-stop Model.
Late at night, a man arrives in New York City for an important job-interview scheduled for 9 o'clock next morning. He is nervous, and cannot sleep. After a long night, he gets up early, gets ready, and leaves the hotel. He looks for a taxi only to find out that there are none to be seen. They are on strike.
He asks someone where he could take the subway going downtown, and is told that there is no subway available that morning because of a freack accident.
He has no choice but to take a bus, knowing that they stop almost at every block. With the taxis being on strike, and the subway out of commission, he expects to find a lot of people at the bus-stop. But this should not be a problem. He is big man. He can shove and push, and get on the first bus regardless of how many people there are.
He runs to Broadway avenue, and approaches a bus-stop only to find people standing in a long line. How can you push and shove where no one else is? He has no choice but to stand at the end of the line. A bus comes, takes a few, and leaves. The second bus passes without stopping. And the third has room only for a few more.
The time is now passed 9 o'clock, and he knows that he has missed his important appointment. He could have gotten on the first bus by pushing and shoving. But the local tradition of staying in line kept him from doing so.
No one is pushed or shoved where proper order is a tradition. The lack of such tradition benefits the bully ones at everyone else's loss, and this is not what civility is all about. In our free enterprise marketplace, many people get rich quick because they can shove and push, and get away with it!
4. The Track Model.
The unidirectional competition provides each person with an exclusive lifelong track. This track is your elbow-room in motion where you have absolute freedom to live as you wish.
On your track, you can speed up or slow down, compete with the others on their tracks, and choose to do what you want to do in your life. Next to you, other people sail on their own tracks. They cannot transgress into yours, and you cannot transgress into theirs unless by mutual concent called contract.
Social life necessitates people getting into each other's living space such as when you get married, make partnership in a business, etc. These require different degrees of getting into each other's track, and these are allowed through marriage contract, business contract, etc. where privileges are exchanged mutually.
Can your neighbor play loud music at 2 o'clock in the morning without your concent? No. Because, his walls are the limits of his elbow-room (his space, his track), and his noise is invading yours.
5. The Unicomp Government.
The majority rule gives 100% of power to those who form the majority, and 0% to the rest. Isocracy, the true democracy, gives power to each proportional to their size. That is, it provides 1% of the people with 1% of the power, 10% of the people with 10%, etc.
Internal independence, external co-dependence is the unicomp rule for any political entity. For example, the federal government could not impose its desire on a state government so long as what the state government does does not violate the human rights or the rights of another state.
The federal government is only a place to facilitate the relations among the states. The same applies to the role of the state government in relation to its county governments, etc. The Big Brother becomes history.
Governing in Unicomp begins in the neighborhood. A block of 100 voters form the Primary Congress. They meet on regular basis to take care of their block, and influence the decisions up the ladder (up to the World Government).
Each block sends a representative to the Secondary Congress which has 100 members, representing 10,000 voters. Each secondary congress sends a representative to the Tertiary Congress which has 100 members, and represents 1,000,000 voters.
Each tertiary congress sends a representative to the Quaternary Congress which has 100 members, and represents 100,000,000 voters. Each quaternary congress sends a representative to the World Congress which represents the world population.
The different levels of the political communities in Unicomp are:
A. A block of neighborhood comprising
of 100 voters.
B. Village: consisting of a number
of blocks.
C. County or metropolis: consisting
of a number of villages.
D. state: consisting of a number
of counties.
E. Country: consisting of a number
of states.
F. Continent: consisting of a number
of countries.
G. World Government.
a. Each unit functions on the principle of internal independence, external co-dependence. That is, a higher level government has no jurisdiction over a lower level community except for matters such as human rights, environmental issues, infringements, etc that necessitate co-dependence.
b. A state government has jurisdiction only over its state issues such as state roads, a federal government over its federal issues such as federal roads, etc.
c. The inter-communal disputes are
matters for higher courts to resolve.
Court decisions cannot be overridden
by legislation. In Unicomp, the congress tends to favor the majority interests,
and the highest court can override the majority interests. Unicomp requires
impartiality of the judges which in turn provides equal weight to the minority
and malority interests.
d. Taxes are collected by the local offices of the tax pyramid, and distributed upwards. Those who do not pay taxes do not have a say in its spending. The Unicomp tax revenue pays for the basic heathcare and the basic education.
e. Nothing is free in Unicomp except for basic health and education. Each person, each family, and each government is responsible for its own needs such as insurance coverage for disaster. There is no 'federal' bail out.
f. Unicomp congress is a place of discussion, not a place of imposition. Disputes between the different groups such the majority and the minority are resolved by a higher court. The court's jurisdiction is limited to determining the fairness.
g. The function of the administration is to inspect and monitor all businesses. Itself does not provide any services. Services, manufacturing, marketing, retailing, etc are all provided by non-profit organizations. The police and military are also independent of the government, and are funded by the treasury as directed by legislation.
6. Unicomp Economy.
The Unicomp formula for income is: to each according to each's productivity. Unlike capitalism, the law must guarantee everyone the right to have a job. Unlike communism, there is a pay scale according to one's profession, and the quality and quantity (qq) of one's productivity.
The Unicomp principle requires the unification of the world economy under one set of uniform laws. This means equal pay for equal work, and uniform laws in regard to the environment, etc.
Unicomp provides free basic health care. Anything above that is to be purchased by the individual from non-profit insurance companies which include cosmetic surgery and expensive procedures. The higher education is paid for by the student or borrowed to be taken out of his/her pay ckecks after graduarion. The public should not pay for someone's higher education unless that someone shares his higher income with the public!
7. The problem of Copyright.
Copyrights give unfair outcomes to consumers, industries, and nations. In Unicomp, a certain percentage of the budget is appropriated to buy ideas from the individuals, develop them in a government facility or pay the individuals or industries to develop them (Research and Development). Thus, they will be developed as public property.
8. The Unicomp Pricing.
Whether one considers priceless worthless or beyond price is one's prerogative. However, the Unicomp price of a commodity is determined by its cost, not by the amount of demand for it. In Unicomp, demand is translated to the rate of production. Therefore, what is in general demand would be cheap, and what is not, expensive.
DATED: 9 October 2000
NOTE: The article above is from "Thus Speaks Zarathustra", a 4-volume book (presently not available) by Behrooz Bassim, MD. This book is a 21st century sequel to Nietzsche's 19th century masterpiece. The following are other pages from it on the internet in link format:
Abortion
Artificial
Color & Flavor
Capitalism
Civility
Darwin
Was Right So Was LaMarck
Democracy
or Isocracy
Etymology
of sacred, etc
God,
Who?
Guns
in USA
Homosexuality
Honesty
Me
Intelligence
Monetary,
A Unique Unit, A unique
Particle
Physics, Grand Spectrum
Plight
of the Mice
Politician,
The American
Race
& Class
Sermon
Sham
Justice
Soul
Is Mind
Unidirectional
Competition
Universal
Army
Universal
Language
Zarathustra
CONTACT: bassim@usadatanet.net