Conviction 7 - Leadership/Interest

>> Primordial leadership of humanity to coordinate in the interest of its collective necessities

The What

An apparatus forever improving its capabilities to understand and protect collective human interest. These interests are primordial in nature and constitute the survival and prosperity of global society above all things. Transnational threats to human security and well-being are rife and in the end it will take a supranational authority to protect fundamental human interest. This is a mandating conviction, one that necessitates the existence of a humanitarian vanguard, and is the Neoist’s call to duty to provide elemental security so more complex discourse can flourish without the threat of atrocity.

There is a necessity to address the unity in interest of humanitarian entities and stipulate how to build a truly united and organized humanitarian apparatus to defend the collective interests of humanity. There are three governing principles of how to organize a humanitarian movement. First, there is the three tier system that organizes levels of interaction within the organization itself. In the first tier, at the top of the hierarchy, there exists a leader for specific departments that appoints a cabinet to render decisions on relevant issues. 7 of these departments exist, as stipulated in the manifesto, each with their own leader and cabinet. The first tier constitutes the executive. The second tier consists of various organizational bodies enlisted by the leadership of the relevant department to implement the decisions decided by the executive. These are essentially implementers.  The third tier consists of broad membership, local clubs, individuals, and grassroots advocates. Each of the 7 departments has all three tiers each of which are specialized to perform in their respective fields.

The second governing principle is democratic centralism. In a young movement it is necessary to have decisive leadership yet maintain consent and this is what democratic centralism, when used in its pure from, affords us. There are two aspects to democratic centralism. First, there is the concept of hierarchy, the centralist aspect, where the decisions concerning the movement as a whole are made in the first tier and it is the duty of the subsequent two spheres to implement those decisions (this does not mean that policy of a certain nature cannot be outsourced to them). To make up for the centralization of power in the hands of the 7 departments each tier is elected by the tier below it. This is the democratic component. The membership base elects certain officials within the organizational structure of the second sphere; the organizational structure elects its relevant official within the 7 departments.

The third and final governing principle is the concept of oversight. When entities are elected their appointments  have to be ratified by an assembly of professionals to ensure the quality of the candidate. If these officials reach the decision that a certain choice was inappropriate they can nullify the election of that official by either calling for a new vote or going with the voters' second choice if deemed appropriate. The oversight is necessary so there is a standard of competence as well as a standard of consent and to protect the humanitarian movement from ill-conceived majoritarian whims.

The Why

In simple terms: human potential. In the pursuit of complex political & social objectives we often lose sight of the basics. A significant proportion of humanity is living in a state of utter destitution. Rarely do we ask in the frenzied political obsession with short-term interest how many potentially great humans are losing their lives and opportunities in the climates of poverty, disease, and war. We don’t look beyond the surface into the long term objectives of humanity partly in service to our own interest and partly because we have no substantial way to. The building of a humanitarian movement will change all that by allowing a transnational apparatus to flourish both decisively and consensually thus creating a basic foundation and provide the first step to humans to governing themselves as a whole.

The three tiers are necessary in order to allow for different spheres of interaction. Only a fraction of a particular organization or individual's activities will be expected to serve the will of the humanitarian core - in the Synthesis model of the 7 departments - whilst leaving them free for the most part to pursue their own policies as long as they are in keeping with the broad precepts of the movement. Continue >