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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Thank you for sharing this Rami - hopefully some translations will be forthcoming :) <div>Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> Rami Brahem <rami.brahem@gmail.com>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:56:17 +0100</div><div><b>To: </b><2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion@lists.openfsm.net>; Mark Barrett<marknbarrett@googlemail.com></div><div><b>Cc: </b>occupylondon<occupylondon@lists.riseup.net>; 17s@lists.occupy.net<17s@lists.occupy.net>; <occupycomms@email-lists.org><occupycomms@email-lists.org>; <occupy-manchester@googlegroups.com>; globalNOISE Planning Group<globalnoise@lists.mayfirst.org>; squares<squares@lists.takethesquare.net>; rdwg@googlegroups.com<rdwg@googlegroups.com>; lsxcampeconomics@googlegroups.com<lsxcampeconomics@googlegroups.com></div><div><b>Subject: </b>English Summary of book on horizontality which need translations.</div><div><br/></div>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">English Summary of the book
« Horizontal Hope » which present horizontality & what's
linked to it, caracteristics & an alternative based on all
that is presented.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The book is actually already
accessible
in french at the adress :
<a
href="http://horizontality.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lEspoir-Horizontal-v0.9-Rami-Brahem.pdf">http://horizontality.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lEspoir-Horizontal-v0.9-Rami-Brahem.pdf</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It was
recommended
to me to make a brief summary in english of the book « horizontal
hope » which is already accessible from yersterday 4am
in french langage.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">This summary was
write also as a call for anyone who'd like to diffuse & help
to
get it translated in english.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">First of all,
sorry about my english, some terms are quite complicated to
translate
& i do not have the capacities to translate them correctly.</p>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Summary : </h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">« Horizontal
hope » explains at start that we entered in a new era. The
communication is a lever that change the way we organize, but
unfortunatly it generaly brings the people to thinks a simple
direct democracy on the internet while it's all our vision of
democracy that seems to need to change.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It explains why
we
decided to work in pyramidal forms, because of the need of
centralizing the informations to be able to take decisions for a
large amount of people, but that in a little group, it's not the
best
way to organize & ask if today, as we can all share the
information, the pyramidal system still have a sense. The prelude
speaks
about collective intelligence & different forms of leaderships
&
introduce the plan of the book.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then, i present
the current system, as to make a good proposal it seems important
to
share the problematics that pushed to make that proposal.<br>
<br>
</p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><u>So begins the
part 1 about the problematics</u></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">As a summary, the
first part explains that the current capitalist system naturally
concentrate the money in less & less hands as Marx & lot
of
people explained. The crisis isn't an economic crisis in the sense
that the world is getting richer thought time, it's a crisis of
repartition of money. But even more, it is a crisis of democracy
as
the finance tooked control over the politics & blocks us from
regulating the economy. (Keynes against Friedmann)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">As the croissance
of our countries don't benefit to the populations (we're getting
more
poor while the country is getting richer), it create a negative
economic circle which is really bad for economy.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Lot of references
are given, mainly stilglitz as economist who explained all of
that.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">Then
we enter in more specifics stuffs as how the capital is organi</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">z</span><span style="font-weight:
normal">ed
(think tanks, interpenetration of oligopols, finance &
politic...). Then i present the medias (mainly by presenting
chomsky), neocolonialism (& FMI, mondial bank,..),
geopolitic
with Alba & Brics, the current state of Africa, Arab
springs,
islam, sionism, …</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="font-weight: normal">After
it
speaks about the « theories of complot » explaining that
it is dangerous to resume the world on jews or maconnists &
also
wrong, if not racist. There is a lot of « complot », not
one, & i explain how the system really works (mainly based
of
several important books with Geuens as main reference & his
extraordinary book)</span><span style="font-weight: normal">. </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">I
take the benefit of that part to speak more about Bilderberg
&
« occult societies » while explaining who/what/why &
warnings behind simplistic visions when speaking on these
elements.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then it enter
into
the main point : the rules of the game.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">I explain about
constitutions, how we're organied, the problems there, how a
constitution works basically in a democratic system & how
we're
not even respecting that, & why everyone should know a share
all
of this.<br>
<br>
</p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><u>Then begins
the
Part 2 about all the fundamentals on horizontality.</u></h2>
<br>
As a start it begins to explain about what is synergy, the
parameters
of synergy & precise collective intelligence concept &
derivates. It speaks about attention & the different types of
« listening » as Otto Scharmer developped them & the
differencies between debates & constructive discussions (having
a common intention behing a key)
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then it enter
into
History of « horizontality » with the original tribes
even on the prehistoric era, the african palabre & their
assemblies, the fact that consent of all is the decision process
that
is the most speard among humanity though time all over the world
&
several exemples.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It present
deliberative democracy which seems to be the closest thing that is
close to an
« horizontality system » which as ever proposed to
humanity. & From our best intellectuals of 70's & 80's
&
main critics about it.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">From there, it
jump
into making a clear the difference between the idea of consensus
&
the idea of consent (which have several different names), &
aswell all the debates among the greecs on the specific point of
how
to take decisions all togethers & all that went after that
(condorcet, schulze, etc).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">After
explaining more clearly the difference, it jumps to sociocracy
& collaborative management forms & present
first concret method of decisions making process with the consent
of
all. It takes the caracteristics of these « collaborative
management » methods & compared them to « original
collective intelligence » & U theory.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then we enter
into
the open-source world & discover how close all of this is,
&
what are the links. After seeing how it works, we enter in ne form
of
social movements as Indignados & Occupy.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">After explaining
them & presenting main critics that were sent to us, it begins
to
speak more about assemblies.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then we enter
into
concret assemblies of ancestral african palabre & then
comparing
them with indignados assemblies.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It speaks a bit
about world cafe, open forums, participative workshops aswell...
Then on
collaborative tools.<br>
<br>
</p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><u>Part 3 :
horizontal ideal</u></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">After this
workaround horiontality emerged clear common caracteristics. Going
back to the « essentials », i try to propose a definition
for horizontalism & to define 5 caracteristics : </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">- The seek of the
consent of all</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">- The seek of
best
holoptism</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">- An Evolutive
system</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">- Living
Architecture</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">-
Decentralization.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Indeed,
everything
explained more in detail. Then we enter more concretly on how
these
caracteristics wouuld be applyed for a national or world system.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">For that, it was
needed to create a new way of define organisations, not simply
with
groups, but more with mathematic ensemblies, as each ensembly can
have specific rules, people can be in several ensemblies, etc.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">After presenting
all of this & some systemic mecanisms that are important, we
enter more deeply about on it works, how to define, etc.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">After the global
organisation is more clear, we enter into the mecanisms of the
decisions that would really seek consent of all at a large scale.
The
mecanisms being differents that the methods : all the methods
enter into these mecanisms but there is a lot of different
methods.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">These mecanisms
help to imagine several ways to take a decision at a large scale,
even without using internet at all (depending the time you have to
take a decision).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It takes the
exemple
of writing a constituion for a state & how to do it...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then the subject
goes to visions on property (Marx against proudhon), differences
between property & possession, & variables into the
property
concept with several exemples & the need to define at least
these
variables (natural ressources, the fact that your right stops when
the right of the other begins & the problem of unlimited
private
property, etc).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">After that, it
explain the mecanisms of politic individualisms & the problem
of Marx saying we're naturally exploiting the others as soon as we
can, without trying to understand the mecanisms that makes the
humans being individualists or not.<br>
We're in a system where we cannot control the benefits of the
community & it push us to politic indidividualism. The book
ask if, in a system where
we control the gains of the collectivity, wouldn't we naturally
enter into a « gift economy » ?<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then i conclude
the Part 3 after some stuff.</p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Part 4 present
all
the concrete methods.</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">This part is more
for people that have no idea about how to organize horizontaly,
methods are just proposal & i keep saying that anyway, nothing
is
marked into stone & that the group decide himself how to
organize
anyway & especially in an evolutive system. It's more for
people
that have no idea, to have a start to begin with & then
improve
these methods.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Especially,
explaning methods is even harder cause each group is different,
each
organization is different, & the methods have to adapt to the
organisation & the people & certainly not the opposite...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">But it present
how
to work & act horizontaly, as individuals, as groups, & as
organisation.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It also present a
proposal for taking a decision in assembly which is inspired by
indignados & occupy methods + African Palabre methods.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then it speak
about
the constitution of an horizontal system that could regroup all
assemblies & compagneros all over the world.</p>
<br>
<h3>Then we enter into
the Part 5 : strategies.
</h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">It's a little
part
compared to the others, which remind the basics of good strategies
&
also the tools of horizontalists.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then it
« conclude » explaining that this book gives an
alternative that is clear & complete for the world, &
aswell
the how to making it real in our struggles & that everything
else
is in your hands (improving it, diffusing it, etc).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Then there is a
text in slam (street poetry).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Summary done !
I also tryed to translate the table of content of the book</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Table of Content</b> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">A new era : Describe why
horizontality is emerging now in the world & differences
between
a leadership that is imposed & the one that we consent on.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><u>Part 1 : « Etat des
lieux » : Describe the current system & his
problematics</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The capital : Capitalist system
concentrate the money, & we're not regulating it anymore
(Keynes/Friedman)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The Medias : The current media
system</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Neocolonialism : How North
currently exploit South</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Geopolitic : the 3 major blocks in
the world (ALBA, BRICS, « Imperialists ») & the state
of Africa</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Arab Spring ? The differences
between Tunisia/Egypt & Syria/Lybia & what really happened
in
Tunisia</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Islamism & muslims : to
understand how islam is used as a neocolonialist tool</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Sionism & jews : Summary of
the story of Israel & Palestine</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The theory of complot : about
« complotists theories », there is no one complot, there
is a lot of them. How the wolrd really works thought international
think-tanks as Bilderbergs & how we deform reality & how
it
deserves us.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Rules of the game : how the
decisions are taken & where the problem really belongs</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The constitutions : how they
work, whar are the current problems in most of constitutions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Conclusions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><u>Part 2 : Horizontality :
theoric fundamentals</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">About synergy : Collective
intelligence, attention, U theory. The « me » & the
« us ». Differencies between debates & constructive
discussions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Revisited History : Horizontality
though history, African Palabre, deliberative democracy, consent
&
consensus.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Sociocracy & collaborative
managements : how they work, main caracteristics</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Open source world : The model &
it's caracteristics</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">New forms of social movements :
how they work & caracteristics</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Assemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> African Palabre assembly</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Open popular assemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">World Cafe & Open Forums</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Participative workshops</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Other case of assemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Caracteristics in common.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Collaborative tools</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><u>Part 3 : The horizontal ideal</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The « Essentials »</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">A definition</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The 5 caracteristics of horiontality</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The theory of organisational
ensemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Space + time = evolution</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The horizontal ensembly</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Groups & commissions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Living organisation</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Defining an ensembly</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About reason to be</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About general functionnement</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About new ways to etablish common
strategic visions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Interactions between ensemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">About decisions making process</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The mecanisms of takins a decision
with the consent of all (different from the methods!)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About complex decisions : the
parameters, how to decide with a lot of people while respecting
the
caracteristics</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Complex systems : pyramidal system
& horizontal system togethers</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Private property, repartition of money
& individualism</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Differencies between property &
possessions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The variables in the propriety
concept</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About the fruits of work</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> « A different vision of the
problem » : speaks about the reasons of politic
individualism & how to naturally eradicate it</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Conclusions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><u>Part 4 : The methods to work
horizontaly</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Individually</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> As a group</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Identifing the moment & the turn
of speak</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Roles to have a reunion</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Managing a reunion</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Decision making process</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Execution</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The governance meeting</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> One word about redacting documents
togethers</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About Assemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Adaptating of the purpose of the
assembly & amount of people</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Process of getting consent in
mass-assemblies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About visual signs</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Recommanded process</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Particular cases of decisions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> The organisation</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Constitution & reglementations</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Basic method for general
gunctionnement of horizontal system</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Consent of all – holoptism –
evolutive – decentralized -living architecture.<br>
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><u>Part 5: Strategies</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> About struggles in our
« democracies »</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Basic principles of strategies</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Weaknesses o pyramidal system &
strenght of horiontal system</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Exemples of strategies for national
movements<br>
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><u>Recapitulative & next</u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Contact, ressources, links..</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Slam-clusion</p>
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