Abstract: This political article present an innovative definition of democracy. Democracy is a mechanism to put in competition governance team on a dialectics basis. It is so a mid between system between fascism and coexistencialism.
The type of government of a country can be divided in three groups:
In
order to control the excess of the government, the coexistencialism goes further than democracy
in organizing a permanent competition
between governments of communities. In a democratic country, Coexistencialism would not necessary replace
democracy as each community can elect their government democratically. The
central government can either be elected though a democratic process or
through the mandate of the governments of community.
Democracy restricts the power
of the government by the confrontation of political parties during the time of
election. Coexistentialism will go further
in restricting the power in organizing the permanent confrontation of
governments. Coexistentialism
and democracy differ by the nature of the confrontation. In democracy, we
have a confrontation between an existing government and opposition parties.
The parties of opposition present their intention to do a better work if they are elected. The
confrontation is not about results of the policy but on the credibility of the parties.
The former government has to make electors trusts that it did its the possible
work
in the current economic situation. The opposition party will always pretend
that they would have done a much better work. As the result of the government
depends of the global macro economy, the previous government will always have
an advantage during a good economic time and a disadvantage during bad
economic times.
With
the coexistentialism, the dissatisfaction of an individual will be expressed
from the migration from one community to another community. Employee can change of
jobs if they are not satisfied of the management of the company which employ them. So, the
confrontation is based on the real capabilities of the governments to satisfy
people. The charismatic skills of the leader will have much less importance
than its capabilities to manage the economy.
Coexistentialism
uses the strength of the competition to force governments to offer to
people the best social and economical environment in the same manner that the
fear of competition force companies to offer the right products in the
capitalism economy.
In
order to demonstrate the advantages of coexistencialism compare to the democracy, let
take the example of a country which have only one company who has the monopole
about manufacturing and
selling cars in a country. The board of director is elected every five
years and had to face a political confrontation against the party of
opposition. The election is done at the majority of
the prospective customers of the company.
In such a system, how will the board of directory manage the car manufacturing company ? Will it invest in technical evolution which might not be understood by the majority ?
For example,
let consider one of the best innovation of the car industry: the diesel
motor. In case of failure of technology of diesel motor, the opposition party will
exploit the failure as a mismanagement and use it to be elected. A minority party will
never make an electoral campaign on a technical innovation but they will rather axe
the campaign on the corruption of the present board of director or the high
cost of the cars produce,... With such opposition, the safe strategy of the board of
director will be to avoid the risk
of innovation in order to have the best chance to be credible and to
look wise. If at the end of their five year, the poll give them a
desperate score, they will stay inactive waiting for the end of their
mandate.
Fortunately,
competitive capitalism economy forces directors to fear the
fact to miss an innovation. And so, even if a technical innovation might take
times to be accepted by the market, they will go for it because they will
fear that the innovation will give a competitive advantage to a
competitor.
In the same kind of ideas, coexistencialism should force governments of community to be interested in social and economic innovation. If the government fails to implement an innovation which has been a success in another community, it will be in danger to lose his citizens to the benefit of the challenging community.
In
the case of a social laboratory,
the coexistencialism will coexist with the democracy and will be an opportunity
to improve the democracy.
Copyright 2002
Author: Hector Archytas