Gaddafi ist nach Gerüchten, die in diesen Minuten auf Al-Jazeera kursieren, auf dem Weg nach Venezuela. Auch wenn das nicht stimmen sollte: einleuchtend ist die Vorstellung schon. Chavez und Gaddafi, das odd couple der Weltpolitik. Die beiden verdienen einander.
Aus dem Grünen Buch die Passage zur Frage, wie man gewaltlos gesellschaftlichen Wandel organisieren kann (während Gaddafis Schergen immer noch scharf schießen):
HOW DOES SOCIETY
READJUST ITS
DIRECTION IN CASE OF
DEVIATION FROM ITS LAW?
If an instrument of governing is
dictatorial, as in political systems in
the world today, the society's vigilance
towards deviation from law will have
only one way to gain readjustment.
That is violence, which means revolu-
tion against the instrument of gov-
erning. This violence or revolution,
even if it is an expression of the feeling
of the society against deviation, is not
carried out by the whole society. It is
undertaken only by those who have the
initiative and boldness to proclaim the
will of the society. However, this
approach is the way to dictatorship, for
this revolutionary initiative increases
the opportunity for an instrument of
governing, representative of the peo-
ple, to arise. This means that the
instrument of governing is still dictato-
rial. Moreover, violence and change by
force are themselves undemocratic,
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although they take place as a result of
the existence of a previous undemocra-
tic situation. The society that is still
entangled around this resultant is a
backward society. What, then, is the
solution?
The solution is for the people to be
the instrument of governing from
basic popular congresses to the Gener-
al People's Congress. The government
administration is abolished and re-
placed by people's committees. The
General People's Congress should be a
national congress where basic popular
congresses, people's administrative
committees, unions, syndicates and all
professional associations come
together. If a deviation from the socie-
ty's law takes place under this system,
it should be dealt with through a demo-
cratic revision rather than by force.
This is not a process of voluntary
choice of the method of change or of
treatment, rather it is an inevitable
result of the nature of such a democra-
tic system. In such a case, there is no
outside group against which violent
action may be directed or which may
be held responsible for deviation.