The Green Book: Part One

Chapter Eight

        WHO SUPERVISES THE
        CONDUCT OF SOCIETY?
                  

  The question that arises is: who
preserves the society from any devia-
tion from the law?  Democratically,
there is no group whatever that can
claim the right of representative su-
pervision over the society. 'Society is
its own supervisor.' Any pretension by
any individual or group that it is re-
sponsible for law is dictatorship.
Democracy means the responsibility
of the whole society, and supervision
should be carried out by the whole
society. That is democracy and its
proper implementation is through the
democratic instrument of governing,
resulting from the organization of soci-
ety itself in basic popular congresses
and from the people's rule through the
popular congresses and the General
People's Congress (National Congress)
in which come together the popular
congresses, administrative people's
committees, unions, syndicates and all
other professional organizations.

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According to this theory, the people
are the instrument of governing and in
this case they are their own super-
visor. In this way self-supervision of
the society over its law is realized.

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