The Third Universal Theory and the West

Western politicians encourage the acceptance of basic misconceptions about the Third Universal Theory for very good reasons - from their point of view of course. The Third Universal Theory contains everything that exposes the bankruptcy of Western politics and it is because of this that every attempt is being made to prevent the theory from having any impact in Western countries. 

The very intensity of the propagandistic efforts to discredit the Third Universal Theory, enable us to gauge the fear which the Green Book provokes in the minds of the political operators in the representative political systems. These operators know that were the Green Book to become general knowledge amongst Western peoples, then they might one day find themselves out of a job. 

For the essence of the Third Universal Theory's approach to the problem of creating a truly democratic political structure is the belief that people cannot be "represented", they must represent themselves in decision-making forums like Libya's Basic People's Conferences. 

The Third Universal Theory contends that representative politics is a form of dictatorship, for such political procedures actually separate the people from the decision-making process. The only popular involvement in that process consists of the right to mark a cross on a ballot paper once every few years. In between such elections, the people have no direct control over government and, if a voter opted for a party that lost an election, that voter's preferences are simply ignored. 

Incredible Distortions

Although the peoples of the Western countries are aware of the failing of their own political systems, most feel there is little they can do to alter those systems. The idea of revolutionary change is strange and even frightening to them. But were they to read and understand the Green Book and appreciate the meaning of the Third Universal Theory, then such drastic change would not seem so very strange after all.

This explains the incredible distortions of the meaning of the Third Universal Theory that are bandied about in the Western media, which has generally been obediently towing the anti-Libyan and anti-revolution lines of their countries' governments. 

Fear of the message of the Third Universal Theory spreading is also the real underlying reason behind the hate campaign directed against Muammar Qadhafi and against all things Libyan. By projecting an image of the Leader of the Revolution that is untrue and by casting aspersions against the political processes that govern the Libyan Jamahiriya, Western leaders hope to thwart the political challenge of the Third Universal Theory. 

But such attempts to prevent Westerners curious about the Third Universal Theory from discovering more, have not met with anything like total success. Several Western universities have over the past decade held serious academic seminars at which the political content of the Third Universal Theory was discussed.

More and more academics with knowledge of the Arab world are realising that the Third Universal Theory is a strain of serious political thought that offers Arabs, the peoples of the developing countries and the people of the developed nations, a new way forward to a truly popular democracy. 

Also we can call attention to the increasing acceptance of the Third Universal Theory by freedom fighters and political activists in the West. Committees and People's Conferences have been organised throughout the Western world composed of committed individuals who have dedicated themselves to the propagation of the Green Book. 

These militants, together with academics and many others with knowledge of the workings of the Basic, Municipal and General People's Conferences in the Great Jamahiriya and the way these organs of people's power relate to the People's Committees and the Administrative Secretariats, realise that here is a system that was not tailor made for Libya, but which could be applied elsewhere.

Interests Catered For

What has impressed foreign observers is the way the political structures that serve the Third Universal Theory cater for all the interests within a society. Both local, regional and national needs are all made to reconcile themselves with one another, while individual interest groups, such as trade unions for example, also have a direct say through association with the People's Conferences in the decision-making process. 

The Third Universal Theory is a guide that needs to be interpreted. Circumstances differ from one country to another and activists committed to its tenants would have to develop their own approach to its implementation in any advanced industrial European or North American society. The more people realise this, the more the theory becomes a threat to entrenched representative politics of the West and this is why the Third Universal Theory provokes such fear amongst Western reactionaries.