A
Anti-racism
Institutional equality rather than good intentions alone.
Anti-racism changes rules, distributions and power relations that reproduce racist inequality. It also binds local majorities.
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The Deluism glossary.
Political language quickly becomes imprecise. The glossary defines central terms, marks their limits and connects them directly to deeper texts.
20 terms
C
Commons
A shared resource maintained under common rules.
Commons may be spaces, knowledge, water, infrastructure or digital systems. Access, care, accountability and protection from private appropriation are decisive.
F
Federation
Coordination without permanent central rule.
Self-governing units assign specific common tasks to higher levels. Delegation remains limited, accountable and recallable.
B
Binding mandate
An instruction instead of a political blank cheque.
Delegates represent traceable decisions, report back and can be recalled. New questions require renewed authorisation.
C
Community
The social ground of human freedom.
Community means mutual responsibility and shared infrastructure. It is pluralist and limited by personal rights.
G
Guild
A democratic association of production and knowledge.
A guild connects workers, training, professional autonomy and social need. Ownership is replaced by common responsibility.
E
Equal freedom
Freedom that is genuinely open to everyone.
Rights require material conditions. Equality must erase neither diversity nor personal self-determination.
M
Mutual aid
Cooperation without domination or humiliation.
People share time, knowledge and resources as a reciprocal social practice—not as occasional charity from above.
I
Internationalism
Solidarity across states and borders.
Common global problems are solved federally. Liberation occurs through self-empowerment, not empire or cultural subordination.
L
Living doctrine
A stable core with revisable models.
Principles provide direction; institutional proposals change in response to experience, criticism and documented consequences.
N
Non-extractive economy
Production that does not consume people and nature.
Provision, time prosperity and ecological regeneration replace profit and growth as the sole measures of success.
P
Pluralism
Shared rights, diverse ways of life.
Different cultures, beliefs and lives are not a disturbance. Their limit lies in denying equal rights to others.
R
Radical equality
No person possesses a natural right to rule.
Differences in knowledge or task justify no permanent political, economic or cultural superiority.
R
Revolutionary reformism
Reforms that build democratic counter-power.
A reform is transformative when it gives people lasting common decision-making power and builds new institutions.
R
Rotation
Time limits for political functions.
Offices change regularly so that knowledge is shared and political positions do not become permanent property.
S
Self-government
Those affected decide common affairs.
Decisions begin locally and are federated only for genuinely shared tasks. Participation requires time, accessibility and protected rights.
S
Social surplus
Commonly created returns for common purposes.
Surpluses flow under democratic rules into provision, renewal, shorter working time and ecological repair.
S
Sunset clause
A built-in end to exceptional power.
An emergency power expires automatically unless it is explicitly and temporarily renewed after public review.
R
Recall
Mandates can be withdrawn early.
Recall turns delegation into a controllable instruction. It needs clear procedures and protection from informal power.
T
Time prosperity
Freely available time as social success.
Productivity gains should create not only more output but space for care, education, politics, relationships and rest.