The Social Republic

Why do I propose a two-part governing system? It is not some reflection of the feeble institutions characteristic of financial democracy, their so-called Senate and House of Representatives, or even more ridiculously the British House of Commons and House of Lords. Both examples represent the arrangement that if the first chamber doesn't completely follow the interests of money-power, the second one will see to it that it does.No, in a truly balanced system all the power of wealth should lie with the Guilds. Not only is this the natural order of things, but it concretely ensures that our "aristocracy of the spirit" is not exposed to the temptation of using its position to obtain wealth which inevitably would lead to heredity and therefore decay. The system continually throwing up new generations of leaders for the senate would constantly present challenge to decadence.Democracy, government by the people for the people in a pure form has never existed outside a very few historical, small- scale societies. The manageability of such a structure is well-nigh impossible in any society that hopes to reap benefits of scale. What it usually ends up with, and certainly has in the West, is the rule by a financial oligarchy- rule by the few. I use the term oligarchy because aristocracy has about it the implication of honour, this is indeed the very opposite of what our ruling elites represent. Do not for a minute confuse my use of aristocracy with the sad and sorry landed gentry still to be found in some parts of Europe, they are nothing more the repulsive reminder of previous long past corruptions of leaders. For the aristocracy of the spirit is also the aristocracy of honour.Europe is our concern and European greatness, but it must be accepted that spiritual aristocracies have existed outside of our civilization. The Samurai of Japan were one such and it was the gallant Yukio Mishima who made the ultimate statement of honour in the terms of his own nobility's code in his rejection of decadence of civilization. Another example is that of a distant Indo-European relative of our great civilization, Vedic India. Kshatriya is one of the four varnas, or castes, in Hinduism. Traditionally, the ruling or military class belonged to the Kshatriya varna. In ancient Vedic society, a person's varna was assigned based on aptitude , conduct , and nature . Tragically over the years, these groups became hereditary, leading to the objectionable, rigid system to be found in India to this day.So many political dictionary explanations of the term Republic will meaninglessly speak of popular sovereignty, but in truth the naiveté of these assumptions is astounding. Classical republics, including the Roman Republic, were not based on popular sovereignty but the rule of the more competent for society as a whole. Society here means more than a sum of parts, some sort of vulgar vox-pop. It means society, culture, civilisation and in Hegelian terms, the State. Hence the true republic is the Social Republic.By Comrade Dale Saxbey.