The Green Book: Part One

          Muammar Al Qathafi

            THE GREEN BOOK

               Part One

          The Solution of the
              Problem of

               DEMOCRACY

           'The Authority of
               the People'

Chapter One

           THE INSTRUMENT OF
               GOVERNING


  'The Instrument of Governing is the prime
political problem which faces human com-
munities.'
  Even the conflict within the family is,
often, the result of this problem.
  'This problem has become serious since the
emergence of modern societies.'
  Peoples, nowadays, face this persistent
problem and communities suffer from va-
rious risks and grave consequences to which
it leads. They have not yet succeeded in
solving it finally and democratically.
  The GREEN BOOK presents the final
solution to the problem of the instrument of
governing. 
  All political systems in the world today
are the product of the struggle for power
between instruments of governing. The
struggle may be peaceful or armed, such as
the conflict of classes, sects, tribes, parties or
individuals.  The result is always the victory 
of an instrument of governing -- be it an
individual, group, party or class and the
defeat of the people, i.e. the defeat of genuine
democracy.

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  Political struggle that results in the vic-
tory of a candidate with 51 per cent of the
votes leads to a dictatorial governing body
disguised as a false democracy, since 49 per
cent of the electorate is ruled by an instru- 
ment of governing they did not vote for, but
had imposed upon them. This is dictatorship.
Besides, this political conflict may produce a
governing body that represents only a
minority, for when votes are distributed
among several candidates, one of them polls
more than any other candidate. But if the
votes polled by those who received less are
added up, they can constitute an over-
whelming majority. However, the candidate
with fewer votes wins and his success is 
regarded as legitimate and democratic! In
actual fact, dictatorship is established under
the cover of false democracy. This is the 
reality of the political systems prevailing in
the world today. They are dictatorial systems
and it seems clear that they falsify genuine
democracy.

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Chapter Two   Table of Contents