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JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI'S

GRUNNLEGGENDE ANARKISTISKE IDÉER

JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI'S

BASIC ANARCHIST IDEAS

Timian Sabatini, born 21.12.1948, was the frontman in the anarchist section of the People's Movement against the EU (Folkebevegelsen mot EU) in 1994. He was active in the NO to the EU-movement in 1994 and especially the direct actions following up the result of the referendum by Faxes sent to CNN and more from AIT/AIIS. Timian Sabatin was and is the main consultant to AIT/AIIS. See: The history of Norway and the Anarchy - https://www.anarchy.no/a_nor.html.

Some time has passed on since the Norwegian People turned their back against the main economic political course of the marxist social democrat government, at the 1994 EU referendum. This was an anarchist "bottom - up" from the People, i.e. the grassroots, revolutionary change - against the Authorities, i.e. the Bureaucracy, broadly defined in both public and private sector. The "top - down" management of Gro Harlem Brundtland & Co. was crushed, and Norway became an Anarchy, i.e. of low degree. The megatrend of the late eighties and early nineties was a movement to the right and upwards on the Economical Political Map. The EU referendum and more direct actions indicated a further jump in this direction, and thus the economic political system in Norway made a revolutionary change, and passed the border between the marxist social democrat sector and the anarchist, i.e. liberal social-democratic - sector of social individualism. This of course is a major social event in the economic political world history. A long jump further rightwards may result in a liberalist system, and a reverse tendency may give a retardation to marxist social democracy, but this is not the case at the moment. Thus, Norway became an anarchy in 1994/95, and it still is an anarchist economic-political system, i.e. real democracy = liberal social democracy with a significant green tendency.

The Economic-Political Map


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The Economic-Political Map
The anarchy degree is 100% - the authoritarian degree within the anarchist quadrant. "Esquerda" means left, and "direita" means right.
The star indicates the Norwegian economic-political system after the velvet anarchist revolution in 1994/95. The anarchist ideal, i.e. real democratic ideal, is at the top of the map.
A mathematical precisation of the map is presented at the Formula of anarchism .
For practical statistical methods of estimation of the authoritarian degree etc. see the chapter V. B. at Economic-political Map,
We use the term semi-libertarian for all systems that are not totalitarian and are not anarchist.
Timian Sabatini's place on the economic-political map is in the Anarchist (= Liberal social-democratic) quadrant, in the sector of Social-individualist anarchism, close to Collectivist Anarchism, also with a green and anarcho-syndicalist approach.
 He is member of the Senterparty, that has a strong decentralism on the agenda.
He is a completely libertarian (frihetlig) person, and is therefore not semi-libertarian.

More about the Economic-Political Map
100% anarchism occupies the high-degree progressive peak of optimal authority and freedom.
Anarchism of lower degree is closer to the middle point. Conversely, ultra-authoritarian populism, fascism & ochlarchy including chaos, are grouped together at the lowest end of the spectrum.

(ANARCHISM – LIBERAL SOCIAL DEMOCRACY )
Optimal Law & Order / Real Democracy
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[ STATE-SOCIALISM ] ------------------+---------[ PLUTARCHY / LIBERALISM ]

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[ ULTRA-AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM ]
[ FASCISM / OCHLARCHY INCLUDING CHAOS]

Map Dimensions

And thus, the Anarchy of Norway is still going strong. Although the system is significantly anarchist, i.e. within the Quadrant of Anarchism on the economic political map, it is somewhat far from the anarchist i.e. real democratic ideal on the top of the map. "So this is heaven: Norway", the LA-TIMES in USA reports about Norway, November 2001, but this is however a bit exaggerated; see American look at Norway - Report no 1, where the article is quoted, with comments from IIFOR added. Another American article on the situation in Norway, quoted from NY-TIMES January 2002, also with comments from IIFOR, is also included.

The main policy of the Anarchist International (AI/IFA = ANORG GLOBAl) and The Anarchist Federation of Norway (AFIN) was presented in the largest Newspaper in Norway, Verdens Gang 06.11.2001, p 39, see Anarchy is [real] democracy - article in VG. This article also states "Norway [as] a relatively anarchist country, however a bit far from the anarchist ideal (Norge som et relativt anarkistisk land, men nokså langt fra det anarkistiske ideal)."

In June 2002 a libertarian direct action against the World Bank's reactionary policy and the ABCDE-meeting, in Oslo, once more confirmed that anarchy is significantly on in Norway, see Direct action against the ABCDE-meeting and policy. Norwegian firms are more and more horizontally organized, according to Nordhaug and Gooderham at NHH (Dagsavisen 15 & 16.10.2004).

A degree of anarchism of ca 54%, as in Norway 2025 is as mentioned not a high degree of anarchism. This means the authoritarian degree is still ca 46%. If the libertarian degree is less than 50% there is no anarchy, i.e. real & green democracy, at all. About 54% anarchy degree is quite an accepted estimate. It is a.o.t. quoted in Dagens Næringsliv (the Industrial life of today, the main economical newspaper of Norway) no 2/3 June 2007 and Finansavisen (the Financial newspaper) Wednesday 17. October 2007, see anarchist articles in DN and Finansavisen.

30.05.2007. The Anarchy of Norway was rated as the most peaceful nation in the world, and since the middle of 1995 the country has also been ranked as the most democratic, libertarian and anarchist on planet Gaia, a.k.a. Tellus and Earth.

15.01.2010. Positive citizen survey: A nationwide citizen survey shows that 86 per cent of Norwegians think that their country is close to being a perfect country to live in.

02.11.2011. Flat hierarchy challenges new leaders. Norway's "flat, flat, flat" management hierarchy [i.e. not topheavy pyramid economically and/or political/adminstrative] poses a huge challenge for new leaders recruited from overseas. It can also explain why there's so few of them within the Norwegian business world. "Many leaders can feel so disrespected when they come to Norway," said Kimberly Lein-Mathisen, global alliance leader for the large US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. Everyone is equal, and employees are accustomed to being consulted on most matters, and having their say. Source: www.newsinenglish.no.

So called heaven or not, 54% anarchism is far from the 100% anarchist ideal, full democracy. Thus, it is plenty of room for improvement from anarchist & real democratic = liberal social democratic, perspective, and by no means time for a break in the fight against authoritarian tendencies. The revolution must be fought permanent, in the daily life, to sustain and develop further. However, as long as a) Norway stays out of EU, b) populist and nationalist tendencies are put at place, and c) the left and right tendencies outbalance each other reasonable as by now, Norway will probably stay anarchist and real & green democratic, liberal social democratic, and be a lighthouse for EU and the rest of the world. We call for anarchist, real & green democratic Bottom – Up actions to sustain and increase the degree of anarchy and democracy in Norway!

The Real & Green Democracy revolution in Norway and the Green Global Spring Revolution GGS. The veteran, (the girl friend of Timian Sabatini) eco-anarchist and anarcha-feminist Anna Quist from the Anarchy of Norway, is elected as the official spokesperson for the GGS. She was elected 28.09.2019 unanimously by the GGS/AI- secretariat in Oslo, the capital of Norway, a country in Northern Europe, and an Anarchy (of low degree) since the velvet anarchist revolution 1994/95, also with a significant green tendency. A.o.t. there is no significant coal problem in this country. The revolution started 28.11.1994 with the EU-referendum and more actions. The Anarchy of Norway is still going strong, and in 2019 The 25th anniversary of the anarchist revolution in Norway was celebrated world wide by Real and Green Democrats Thursday 28. November, the Day of the Anarchist Revolution in Norway. "The Real and Green Democracy Revolution in Norway is a significant inspiration for The Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS) because it demonstrates fully that 1. Anarchy, i.e.liberal social democracy including a significant green tendency, works, and 2. that the GGS may very well succeed world wide! But not without hard work and using all legal means and actions!" said Anna Quist, a 1. veteran Real and Green Democracy, i.e. Anarchist, activist since 1965, also 2. activist in the Norwegian anarchist, including green, revolution in 1994/95 and later, and 3. now and in the future official spokesperson for The Green Global Spring Revolution (GGS). Timian Sabatini is also a member and the main consultant for the GAIA & GGS.

JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI FRA FABS - KORT HISTORIKK OM FORHOLDET TIL ANARKISTBEVEGELSEN.

Jens ble født i desember 1948 og allerede i 1964 hadde han frihetlige idéer i tilknytning til bandet sitt, som i 1965 fikk navnet FABS, siden kjent som det Føderalistiske Anarkistiske Beat Sambandet. I 1968 var Jens primus motor i arbeidet med FABS-filmen «Monter» og Kultursyndikatet. I 1977 var han blant initiativ makerne til dannelsen av Anarkistføderasjonen i Norge, ANarkistenes ORGanisasjon (AFIN/ANORG). Han har også blitt angrepet av og har sloss med nynazister, noe som går fram av et intervju med Østmoe i en artikkel i ukebladet Vi Menn, Nr. 27 – juli 1979. Han var også aktiv i fløyelsrevolusjonen i 1994/95, som gjorde Norge til et Anarki (av lav grad). Fra og med 1996 var han en vesentlig bidragsyter til Folkebladet/anarchy.no samtidig som han var primus motor i NØI-INDECO-OSE/indeco.no. Jens har vært aktiv til dags dato i en alder av 77 år (født 21.12.2948). Og fortsetter. Han har skrevet artikkelen om Henrik Ibsens Ikke-stats teori i Folkebladet fra 1981.

JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI FROM FABS - BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELATIONSHIP TO THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT.

Jens was born in December 1948 and already in 1964 he had libertarian ideas in connection with his band, which in 1965 was named FABS, since known as the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society. In 1968, Jens was the prime mover in the work with the FABS film "Monter" and the Culture Syndicate. In 1977, he was among the initiators of the formation of the Anarchist Federation in Norway, ANarkistenes ORGanisasjon (AFIN/ANORG). He has also been attacked by and has fought with neo-Nazis, which is clear from an interview with Østmoe in an article in the weekly Vi Menn, No. 27 – July 1979. He was also active in the Velvet Revolution in 1994/95, which turned Norway into an Anarchy (of a low degree). From and including 1996, he was a significant contributor to Folkebladet/anarchy.no at the same time as he was the prime mover in NØI-INDECO-OSE/indeco.no. Jens has been active to date at the age of 77 (born 21.12.1948). And continues. He a.o.t. wrote the article about Henrik Ibsen's Non-State Theory in Folkebladet from 1981.

FABS ANNO 1967
ARCADIAN MUSIC PRODUCTION
JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI NEDERST TIL HØYRE.
JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI BOTTOM RIGHT.

Timian Sabatini is a great fan of Henrik Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen's anarkistiske dikt "Til Min Venn Revolusjonstaleren" med bakgrunnsmusikk fra FABS og lest av Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini er omtalt på FABS' Hjemmeside:
Henrik Ibsen's anarchist poem "To My Friend the Revolutionary Orator" with background music from FABS and read by Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini is featured on FABS' Website:
FABS - Det Føderalistiske Anarkistiske Beat Sambandet - Homepage - English and Norwegian texts, With links - playlists - to their 5 main albums on YOUTUBE and more.

Diktet inngår som en av låtene til FABS' monumentale album: "Anarki i Norge - Anarchy in Norway" som omhandler anarkismens historie i Norge. Link til albumet er følgende:
The poem is included as one of the songs on FABS' monumental album: "Anarki i Norge - Anarchy in Norway" which deals with the history of anarchism in Norway. The link to the album is as follows:

Anarki i Norge - Anarchy in Norway:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQAaOcG9zc7n3KtfWgryN_Mpz_ILClLrQ

Låten "Den Første Anarkismebølgen" som bl.a. inneholder Ibsen's dikt "Til Min Venn Revolusjonstaleren" finner du på følgende link:
The song "The First Anarchist Wave" which includes Ibsen's poem "To My Friend the Revolutionary Speaker" can be found at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UP-HD-bA4&list=OLAK5uy_nQAaOcG9zc7n3KtfWgryN_Mpz_ILClLrQ&index=3

DEMOKRATI-IDEALET

Det anarkistiske (= liberale sosial-demokratiske) idealet  - anarkistenes (de liberale sosial-demokratenes) langsiktige økonomisk-politiske mål!

AI-generated video about the 100% anarchist = real democratic, ideal. Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/anarchistideal.mp4

Det anarkistiske idealet er generelt et samfunn såvidt mulig innrettet etter anarkistiske prinsipper, som en ledestjerne for den økonomisk-politiske styringen m.v.. Prinsippene for det anarkistiske idealsamfunnet er: 100% sosialisme og autonomi i vid forstand, effektivitet (Pareto-optimalitet, også med hensyn på miljøfaktorer) og rettferdighet (ombyttekriteriet, at ingen vil bytte posisjon med noen annen, når alt kommer til alt), minimale rangs- og lønnsforskjeller - politisk/administrativt og økonomisk hierarki, herunder frihet (uten andres frihets berøvelse, slaveri og tyranni), likhet, solidaritet; sosial justis inklusive libertær (frihetlig) lov (vedtatt direkte av folket selv eller via delegater) og optimal orden, rettssikkerhet og menneskerettigheter, frie kontrakter (ikke slavekontrakter), frie initiativer, ateisme (anarkismen er et sekulært prosjekt, men innebærer full religionsfrihet), antimilitarisme (basert på gjensidig nedrustning og styrkebalanse), internasjonalisme (ikke overnasjonalisme, eller nasjonalisme), desentralisme, selvstyre og føderalisme (ikke hierarkisk, EU-aktig), selvforvaltning (autogestion) og frihetlig kommunalisme, dvs. beslutninger tas i hovedsak lokalt av de vesentlig og konkret berørte - fra enhver etter evne - til enhver i følge behov. Dette er essensen av «system og styring uten hersker og hersking» = an-ark-i. Dvs. reelt demokrati.

Den vanlige venstre vs. høyre dimensjonen alene er fullstendig utilstrekkelig til å gi et tilstrekkelig bilde av det økonomisk-politiske landskapet. Det todimensjonale økonomisk-politiske kartet som presenteres her gir et adekvat bilde av det økonomisk-politiske landskapet.

Frihet, det vil si graden av frihet, måles ved libertær-graden = 100 % - autoritær-graden. Den libertære graden = graden av demokrati. Frihet, er frihet uten å skade andres frihet, ikke frihet for andres regning, økonomisk og/eller politisk/administrativt, i vid forstand! Reell frihet = eller > 50 % libertært & demokratisk, dvs. både økonomisk og politisk/administrativ i vid forstand = anarki og anarkisme. Virkelig frihet = eller > 50% sosialisme & autonomi bredt definert = anarki og anarkisme. Reelt demokrati inkluderer alltid grønn politikk, det vil si betydelig. Ekte demokrati betyr at samfunnet skal styres og drives fra bunnen og opp, det vil si fra Folket – grasrota, og oppover, ikke fra toppen – ned, det vil si betydelig. Dette er ekte føderalisme. Dette er frihet i et samfunnsperspektiv.

THE IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY

The anarchist (= liberal social-democratic) ideal - the long-term economic-political goal of the anarchists (the liberal social-democrats)!

AI-generated video about the 100% anarchist = real democratic, ideal. Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/anarchistideal.mp4

The anarchist ideal is generally a society organized as far as possible according to anarchist principles, as a guiding star for the economic-political management, etc. The principles for the anarchist ideal society are: 100% socialism and autonomy in the broadest sense, efficiency (Pareto-optimality, also with regard on environmental factors) and justice (the exchange criterion, that no one will exchange positions with anyone else, after all), minimal rank and salary differences - political/administrative and economic hierarchy, including freedom (without deprivation of others' freedom, slavery and tyranny), equality, solidarity; social justice including libertarian (freedomly) law (adopted directly by the people themselves or via delegates) and optimal order, rule of law and human rights, free contracts (not slave contracts), free initiatives, atheism (anarchism is a secular project, but implies full freedom of religion), antimilitarism (based on mutual disarmament and balance of forces), internationalism (not supranationalism, or nationalism), decentralism, self-government and federalism (not hierarchical, EU-like), self-management (autogestion) and libertarian communalism, i.e. decisions are mainly taken locally by the significantly and concretely affected - from anyone according to ability - to anyone according to need. This is the essence of "system and governance without a ruler and ruling" = an-arch-y. That is real democracy.

The usual left vs. the right dimension alone is completely insufficient to provide an adequate picture of the economic-political landscape. The two-dimensional economic-political map presented here gives an adequate picture of the economic-political landscape.

Freedom, i.e. the degree of freedom, is measured by the libertarian degree = 100% - the authoritarian degree. The libertarian degree = the degree of democracy. Freedom, i.e. freedom without harming others' freedom, not freedom at others expence, economically and/or political/administrative, in the widest sense! Real freedom = or > 50% libertarian & democratic, i.e. both economic and political/administrative in the widest sense = Anarchy and Anarchism. Real freedom = or > 50% socialism & autonomy broadly defined = Anarchy and Anarchism. Real democracy always includes green policy, i.e. significant. Real democracy means society should be managed and run from the bottom up, i.e. from the People – grassroots, and upwards, not from the top – down, i.e. significant. This is real federalism. This is freedom in societal perspective.

Anarki = An-Ark-I betyr system og styring uten hersker(e), An = uten, Ark = hersker og I = system og styring, som i monark-i.
Det betyr ikke at systemet er uten topp og øvrighet, men at innflytelsen på styringen både politisk/administrativt og økonomisk, går mer nedenfra, fra Folket, grasrota, enn fra toppene, ovenfra og ned.

Anarchy = An-Arch-Y means system and governance without ruler(s), An = without, Arch = ruler and Y = system and governance, as in monarch-y.
It does not mean that the system is without a top and authority, but that the influence on governance, both politically/administratively and economically, comes more from below, from the People, the grassroots, than from the tops, from the top down.

Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini has written about 90% of anarchy.no and indeco.no alone or together with others. Timian Sabatini is the main consultant to anarchy.no.
Click on www.anarchy.no and www.indeco.no - also including the material on the links, to see more of his basic anarchist ideas.

Summary

Some time has passed on since the Norwegian People turned their back against the main economic political course of the marxist social democrat government, at the 1994 EU referendum. While the Norwegian EEC referendum in the early seventies gave a movement to the left on the economic political map, the megatrend of the late eighties and early nineties was a movement to the right and upwards. The EU referendum and more actions indicated a further jump in this direction, and thus the economic political system in Norway made a revolutionary change, a "bottom - up" revolution, and passed the border between the marxist social democrat sector and the anarchist, i.e. liberal social-democratic, sector of social individualism. This of course is a major social event in the economic political world history.

A long jump further rightwards may result in a liberalist system, and a reverse tendency may give a retardation to marxist social democracy, but this is not the case at the moment, and thus the living Anarchy of Norway (AoN), a liberal social democratic and real & green democratic system, is still going strong.

Although the system by now is significantly anarchist, i.e. within the Quadrant of Anarchism = the Quadrant of Liberal Social Democracy, on the economic political map, it is somewhat far from the anarchist ideal on the top of the map, i.e. full democracy. Thus, it is plenty of room for improvement from anarchist perspective, and by no means time for a break in the fight against authoritarian tendencies. The revolution must be fought permanent, in the daily life, to sustain and develop further. However, as long as a) Norway stays out of EU, b) populist and nationalist tendencies are put at place, and c) the left and right tendencies outbalance each other reasonable as by now, Norway will probably stay anarchist, liberal social democratic, and real & green democratic, and be a lighthouse for EU and the rest of the world.

Let's work together, on co-operative or individual basis, in media, political and economic organizations, to support the Anarchy of Norway and anarchist - liberal social democratic, and real & green democratic - tendencies all over the world. Here Henrik Ibsen's "Non-State-Theory" may be a source of inspiration...

Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini has written about 90% of anarchy.no and indeco.no alone or together with others. Timian Sabatini is the main consultant to anarchy.no. Click on www.anarchy.no and www.indeco.no - also including the material on the links, to see more of his basic anarchist ideas.

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