Futurist
Party Platform
Futurist
Party Platform
Sam Ghandchi
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I wrote this proposed
platform in July 2001, and my
introduction to
the Persian translation, explains more about why forming a party with a platform
like this, is so critical for Iran's development. This
POLITICS:
LOCAL ELECTIONS: Build up district elections
for local Municipalities, Cities, and Provinces to further federalism in
BALLOT
INITIATIVES: Institute
"Ballot Initiatives", with direct voting of all Iranians for Propositions, at
State and Federal level, to go beyond representational democracy and to
actualize participatory democracy.
FREEDOM OF
POLITICAL PARTIES: Ensure the
freedom of association by allowing all political parties to participate in all
elections and voting of the country.
Allow primaries of these parties before the national election so that they
become the vehicle of screening of the candidates rather than any organ like
the current Council of Guardians of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
PARLIAMENT: Support a
parliament, as an independent legislative branch of government, ensuring
representational democracy.
CHECKS &
BALANCES: Support
division of power between judicial, legislative, and executive branches of
government with complete checks and balances.
DISCLOSURE OF
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OF STATE OFFICIALS: Prevent corruption in executive, legislative,
and judicial branches of the government.
FEDERAL RESERVE: Institute an independent
Federal Reserve Board to oversea the Exchange Rate, inflation, interest rates,
and the overall economic health of the federal
FOREIGN POLICY: Promote professionalism rather than
honor system in Foreign Policy.
Promote
HUMAN RIGHTS: Actively
support human rights organizations campaigning for Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR).
RIGHT OF
DISSENT: Build membership
accountability to the
INDIVIDUAL
RIGHTS: Promote and
fully support the individual rights of every person and their pursuit of
happiness.
DEATH PENALTY: Abolish torture
and death penalty for all.
ECOLOGY: Support
ecological and environmentally sound policies that at times may even undermine
immediate financial gains.
DRAFT: Abolish
compulsory draft and conscription (sarbAzi-e
ejbAri) and any needed army to be run as a paid enterprise of cadres.
NEW ETHICAL
ISSUES: Promote
noninterference of state in new ethical issues of Euthanasia, Sex Change, Sperm
Bank, Surrogate Mothers, Abortions, Methods of Birth Control, and Human
Transplant, and when conflicts come up, the courts to seek the pro and con
opinions of the experts in the field.
WOMEN: Promote participation of women in
every aspect of Iranian life, and at all levels of contribution by removing all
the religious, legal and traditional obstacles preventing their full
participation in the political, social, and economic affairs of Iran. Women are playing a very significant
role in post-industrial economies and they can spearhead the development of
NATIONAL,
ETHNIC, & RELIGIOUS MINORITIES:
Expand the state and local organs to encompass all the needs of national,
ethnic, and religious minorities in the federal
MASS MEDIA: Support full
independence of mass media from the government interference and full guarantee
of freedom of the press. Promote self-sufficiency and privatized radio, TV,
newspapers, Internet_based news, and other forms of
mass media.
SOCIAL JUSTICE &
WELFARE: Oppose the
popular money and profit-centered view of people and the world; and to support
the manifestation of a movement towards enlightened self-interest; for
individuals, businesses, and governments.
Support welfare programs that promote new technical investments, or
compensate for unemployment, or provide public health and education.
EDUCATION & CULTURE:
RESPECT FOR
LIFE: Promote
reverence for life in all its forms and its interconnectedness.
SECULAR
EDUCATION: Ensure that
Public schools do not promote any religion or ideology.
NONVIOLENCE: Advocate
personal and political nonviolence, peace and democracy in the classroom, as
well as the workplace, and political arena; and recognition of the emotional
and spiritual dimensions of life, as well as the intellectual and physical
ones.
PEACE: Oppose any form
of tyranny, war, injustice, and aggression; and assist the overcoming of the
human unconscious flight or fight programming, as the only guarantee for a
lasting peace.
DIVERSITY: Promote the
diversity and contributions of each race, nationality, culture, religion, sex,
and sexual orientation; the honoring of individual regardless of age and
ability differences.
STATE POLICY: Prevent any state interference and
censorship of Music, arts, festivities, and other cultural activities.
ART EDUCATION: Promote close
association of educators and artists to decide how to introduce students to
various art-forms, free of the interference of any state and religious
institution.
CULTURAL
HERITAGE: Promote
nongovernmental research, about art and culture, through nonprofit
organizations of writers, artists, and musicians to help the youth to come to
terms with our roots.
SPORTS: Promote private
sports enterprises and discourage government interference in sports.
MEDITATION: Although
supporting the separation of religious practices from the activities of
government and promoting non-compromising full separation of state and religion
in a secular Republic of Iran, support practices such as meditation, that
enhance the sense of interconnectedness.
AUTONOMOUS
SYNCHRONICITY: Urge the
democratization of all human institutions to achieve the pursuit of individual
happiness and to outreach for autonomous synchronicity, as the ideal of
interpersonal relationships of the individuals, and the institutions.
RETROGRESSION: Oppose all the
so-called "new age" propaganda that promote
retrogression to Dark Ages, rather than moving forward to a post-industrial
information society, as an alternative to the problems of the industrial
society. Encourage new
understanding of the universe and to favor the boldness to challenge popular
philosophical and religious beliefs about the origins and the fate of humanity
and the universe.
TECHNOLOGY: Make use of the
latest computer and communications technologies to raise the efficiency of
schools, while not losing sight of the importance of the human factor and
teachers.
LANGUAGE OF
EDUCATION: Fully support
bilingual and trilingual education in areas of the federal republic, where
various national and ethnic groups speak multiple languages.
HEALTH:
STATE & HEALTH: Promote minimal
interference in development of various forms of health institutions, while
supporting the welfare programs to guarantee minimal health insurance for all.
IMPLANTS: Promote
development of artificial implants to fundamentally eradicate the savage
practices of obtaining human implants from prisoners and needy.
DRUGS: Join and work
together with international associations that are addressing this worldwide
problem, rather than trying to solve it in isolation. Also work together with the
educational system to create joint programs at schools, to address the issue
rather than trying to solve the problem by force and executions.
FAMILY PLANNING: Work close with
the educational system to address these issues in the schools and universities.
MEDICAL
RESEARCH: Promote active participation
in international efforts in research in areas of AIDS, Cancer,
ECONOMICS:
AGRICULTURE: Promote applications of
biotechnology, genetics and other new technologies to completely modernize the
agricultural system of
POST-INDUSTRIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE:
Support development of the post-industrial enterprises and fade away the smoke
stack industries of the past.
Promote the technologies of computers, communications, genetics, and
satellite communications to make the infrastructure necessary for
post-industrial development of
NATIONAL VENTURE
CAPITAL FUND: A capital fund focused on
development of post-industrial infrastructure in
COMMUNICATIONS: Support construction of Fiber
Optic cables connecting the major metropolitan cities of
TECHNOLOGIES: Focus on
computer, networking, and communications technologies, followed by biotech,
solar energy, artificial intelligence, and space technologies.
ENTREPRENEURS: Support growth
of entrepreneurs in the areas of new technologies. The entrepreneurs are the backbone
of the growth of new post-industrial economies.
TRADITIONAL
INDUSTRIES: Support
advancement of traditional industries such as carpet weaving to the 21st
century standards. These industries
need to be modernized, using the latest software for design, and more effective
equipment for weaving. Such
industries are being wiped out in global competition because of backward
technology and old-fashioned marketing.
SKILLED
WORKFORCE: Promote close
cooperation of state, universities, and research centers to develop a highly
advanced workforce. Post-industrial
society requires very advanced workforce with high technical expertise.
BAZAAR: Oppose favoring Iranian
traditional bazaar by government, over other forms of property relations in
STOCK MARKET: Promote
enhancement of Iranian Bourse to get on par with international stock market
exchanges. At the same time, to
form a security and exchange body, to monitor the proper practices of the
exchange to prevent fraud.
PROPERTY
RELATIONS: Government not
to interfere in supporting one form of property relations over others, and
discourage state ownership as much as possible.
Property relations can range from private ownership of a
telecommunications equipment-maker business, to employee ownership of an
airline, to private or nonprofit ownership of a radio or a TV station, to state
and city ownership of a park or a recreation area.
ANTI-TRUST LAW: To protect
consumers and to ensure fair competition of business enterprises.
ECONOMIC
JUSTICE: To nurture
social justice in every corner of the world, support a comprehensive welfare
sector in the world economy, to encourage the unfolding of the most
far-reaching creative activities that are ahead of economic feasibility.
MINIMUM WAGE FOR
ALL: Establish min
wage for all and Max wage for state and public officials (exception to be
private entities).
UNEMPLOYEMENT: Promote
fundamental training and retraining programs for new economy, rather than
frivolous plans of creating not-needed jobs just for the sake of creating
pseudo-employment.
POVERTY: Support plans
that create more economic activity for the poor.
Even the charities that promote new job skills, alongside food and
shelter, are the ones that better help the poor by enabling the poor to become
independent.
STATE PLANNING: State planning
especially in the areas of energy and telecommunications is still very
important for any nation state. The
planning body should work closely with the private sector for the goal of
providing fundamental research and infrastructure for such mission critical
enterprises, rather than making the government the sole owner of such
industries.
MANAGEMENT OF
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES:
State-owned enterprises, such as oil and copper industry, should work towards
enabling the private sector to grow in these industries, rather than keeping
their monopoly status in these industries forever.
NON-COMPETING
LAW: The state
should not be allowed to compete with non-government organizations in any
commercial and cultural areas.
NATIONAL UNIT
TRUST: A structure to
replace the State Ownership and create opportunity for direct participation of
people in social ownership.
ANTI-PROTECTIONIST POLICIES: Oppose import
and export policies that are based on any protection of local industries,
rather than protecting the consumers.
If the local industries cannot develop the price, features, and quality that
Iranian consumers desire, they should not be helped by
import/export policies.
They should be helped by technical and scientific programs to get
them become on par with the leading-edge industries worldwide.
EXPORT PROMOTION
FUND: A fund focused
on Iranian exports and active participation in global economy.
INDUSTRY_SPONSORED RESEARCH: Promote more
industry_sponsored research than government_sponsored
research. The former is extremely
weak in
SCIENCE: Promote efforts of close
relationship with international scientific activities ,and
not in isolation, to ensure staying in the leading-edge of scientific
discoveries. Strength of
REGIONAL
COOPERATIONS: Support forming co-operations
with those states such as
OPEC: Promote an OPEC policy to
expedite the post-industrial infrastructure development of
ENERGY
ALTERNATIVES: Support efforts to make
TAXATION: Transition
those state-owned industries, such as oil industry, that can become privatized,
to private corporations, and create a tax system to charge those corporations,
by promoting a progressive tax system, that can support the state in its
activities, and make the state less dependent on state-owned industries, and
more dependent on the tax-payers.
LABOR UNIONS: Support independent labor unions and oppose compulsory governmental labor unions.
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi
IRANSCOPE
http://www.ghandchi.com/index2.html
Sept 2, 2004
*This text was written three years ago in July of 2001.
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