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The freedom as non-dominance and the basic income
Joan INGLADA
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:21 AM
ººº The values and conventional principles are guaranteed with a political
system based on the freedom as non-dominance, through which those people able
to interfere arbitrarily in the life of another person are prohibited in doing
it.ººº
I like the idea of an universal code developed through the intervention of all
the people. The problem in this is that the "real" intervention of all the
people cannot take place while all the human beings don't have guaranteed the
right to the existence; is to say, a Basic Income that guarantees them the
freedom without dominance and that allows them to participate in politics
without being subject to coercive pressures for to be able to survive.
The setting-up of a Basic Income would suppose a much bigger socioeconomic
independence that the current one for a big part of the society, specially for
the sectors of citizenship most susceptible to be dominated in the current
societies (salaried workers, poor in a large sense, unemployed, women, etc).
See also: http://www.redrentabasica.org/descarga/sintesicas_pdf.PDF.
Our theories could only be valid when majorities would be able to express their opinion
Just at the moment when, besides the mentioned sectors, also the voices of 75%
of those now excluded could say their opinion, we will know if our theories
are valid or we will find with many surprises that will make us change our
forms to see the reality.
For that reason, Pettit says, *If a Republican state is committed with the
progress of the cause of the freedom as no-dominance among its citizens, the
least thing it could do is to adopt a policy that promotes the socioeconomic
independence*.
The parliamentary system has its own self-control. In any case it will work
better or worse according to the majority ideology. In my point of view the
ideal system is one based on the republican freedom as non-dominance and
opposed to the tyranny. That means freedom as self-government and without
alienation. A political system in which is indispensable the pondered and non-
arbitrary interference, equal, fair, where those people able to interfere
arbitrarily in the life of another person are prohibited of making it. Just
this way could allow to guarantee the agreed values and principles.
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