The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Religion
The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
The groups of the Open Conspiracy, it may be reiterated, will vary
much in leisure, knowledge, ability and scope. In the student world,
in the associated world of special social, political and philosophical
studies and in the world where speculative thought is combined with
writing and discussion, groups will appear which turn naturally to the
development and expression of the Open Conspiracy as their distinctive
contribution. The concepts of the Open Conspiracy will appear
increasingly in books and periodicals until some of these latter become
recognised definitely as means of communication within the movement. It
will acquire or provoke its own periodic literature. Such circles of
“intelligentsia” will also supply lecturers and leaders of discussions
who will be drawn upon by other groups and group combinations for
visits of stimulus and elucidation.
From that, the spreading, growing and ripening groups will go on to
combine with one another for local and regional meetings. People
who have met first in _ad hoc_ activities will find themselves
developing naturally and progressively into social association
and a loose general organisation with the Open Conspiracy. Such
an organisation should leave the fullest scope for group or even
individual autonomy in particular cases. The only binding restraint
upon independent initiatives in the Open Conspiracy should be its broad
essential requirements, namely:
(1) The complete assertion, practical as well as theoretical, of the
provisional nature of existing governments and of our acquiescence in
them;
(2) The resolve to minimise by all available means the conflicts of
these governments, their militant use of individuals and property and
their interferences with the establishment of a world economic system;
(3) The determination to replace private local or national ownership of
at least credit, transport and staple production by a responsible world
directorate serving the common ends of the race;
(4) The practical recognition of the necessity for world biological
controls, for example, of population and disease;
(5) The support of a minimum standard of individual freedom and welfare
in the world; and
(6) The supreme duty of subordinating the personal life to the creation
of a world directorate capable of these tasks and to the general
advancement of human knowledge, capacity and power.
The admission therewith that our immortality is conditional and lies in
the race and not in our individual selves.
_Chapter XIII_
EARLY CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OF THE OPEN CONSPIRACY
In such terms we may sketch the practicable and possible opening phase
of the Open Conspiracy.
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