Essentially Common Values

Humanity; our essential awakened dignity, humility and compassion.

Diversity; natural evolution and living manifestation of artistic, scientific and cultural wisdom.

Community; the collective independence, interdependence and social-ecological awareness of individuals living in harmony with each other and the natural world.

Integral Principles and Praxis

Equality: tolerance, free association, voluntary cooperation, egalitarian relationships, mutual respect, solidarity and empathy amongst men and women of all ethnicities, origins, hereditary roots and sexual orientations. Freedom of speech, freedom of public assembly as well as public ownership and control of the media.

Liberty: freedom from all forms of domination, hierarchy (namely economic classes), oppression and tyranny, by means of self-organization, building dual power structures as revolutionary strategy, popular education, civil disobedience, direct action, effective creative resistance, and radical reform not excluding participation in mainstream politics. If for the sake of popular education and diplomacy a political wing wishes to run in elections and adhere to this program members would not have to pay dues, raising funds to enter candidates elected from grassroots organisations parallel to or within a larger eco-socialist libertarian organisation. They must surrender all power to the people and resign immediately if a majority vote is won, giving way to social revolution and deconstruction of the state from the grassroots, beginning with combined general worker, student and rental strike with occupations and squats of workplaces, institutions, land and buildings.

Direct democracy: auto-determination, collective responsibility and organised cooperation through participation in workplace councils and small-sized residential cooperative, neighbourhood or land-sharing committees. These could be more or less open collectives of up to 20 people (small enough to facilitate discussion, debate and making consensus decisions when necessary or if desired, maximizing group intimacy and harmony while avoiding the natural formation of competing elites that tend to dominate larger groups). The latter would function as collective consumption councils and associations for various social activities and could function as worker production councils at the same time. Collectives may wish to split in two after a 20th person joins to stay open to newcomers. Larger local community popular assemblies would form (consisting of ideally 100-200 people) with each citizen having inclusive, proportionate influence in horizontal policy-making and equal say in all decision-making affecting them. This would include proposing and voting on legislation when, while and if absolutely necessary (perhaps by ¾ majority votes) to be enforced in rational non-authoritarian ways, establishing fair and ecological standards of local production and consumption, electing recallable delegates to higher level confederal councils and choosing individuals to perform specific community tasks.

Communalism: confederated networks of community assemblies establishing a free polity (‘libertarian municipalism' as defined through ‘social ecology’) having collective autonomous control of land, resources and means of production at the municipal or township level, electing a congress delegates subject to immediate recall, organising and forming various administration committees responsible for making tentative decisions matters affecting up to perhaps 100 000 people (including adjudication), with rotation of posts and complete public transparency. Citizens would most likely take part in a larger economic confederation, beyond territorial borders, based on social need, ecological responsibility, equity (remuneration for effort and sacrifice), participatory planning and autogestion (democratic worker self-management), while aiming towards decentralization and self-sufficiency at the subsistence level. The latter might be done by developing communal exchange with democratically administrated municipal credit and/or currency, collective provisioning , barter and localised honor systems. The bureaucratic aspects of this form of self-government would be reduced to the bare minimum, eventually dissolving completely. Municipal communes or village networks would eventually become loosely connected, ecologically integrated islands in regionally shared wild spaces or parkland.