Binding principle · 05 / 08
Political freedom requires local self-determination, while an interconnected world also requires cooperation. Federation connects both without turning coordination into domination.
Read in the manifesto · pp. 51–57The federation is not a pyramid of command, but a circle of equals.
Centralism suffocates local freedom; complete fragmentation leaves communities vulnerable to crises and more powerful actors. Deluism instead proposes a network of politically autonomous places that join voluntarily and bindingly for shared tasks.
Villages, cities and neighbourhoods decide local questions in open assemblies. Only tasks affecting several communities move upward. Higher levels receive no general power to rule, but narrowly bounded mandates to coordinate.
Delegates carry a concrete mandate, report back and remain recallable at any time. Regional and global councils coordinate infrastructure, resources, fundamental rights or climate protection. Their role is coordination, not command.
Political translation
Local assemblies retain the highest competence over the affairs of their community.
Binding and recallable mandates prevent political representation from becoming autonomous power.
A federal covenant protects fundamental rights and ecological obligations across local boundaries.
Maxims
01“Unity without domination.”
02“Diversity without separation.”
03“Coordination, not command.”