The AEM formed because its founding members
were dismayed to find that there were no organisations within Australia (or within most other countries around
the world) that specifically (or even partially) represented Egalitarianism (and all that is possible by becoming an Egalitarian
society). This has served to give the false impression that an Egalitarianist is a rare individual, when there are
probably millions of
us out here. Consequently, this lack of representation is serving to
make each Egalitarianist a rare individual. Further, people who support Egalitarianism remain isolated and have no strength in numbers
and no public voice, which means that they have no
way of influencing the laws, policies, and culture of our society. The AEM,
which is currently a non-profit unincorporated association, formed to represent these
isolated individuals and to provide a forum within which Egalitarianists
can unit and gain a public voice.
Ultimately, the AEM's goal is to change the
constitution of Australia to an Egalitarian one by gaining public
support via education. This may be some time away as we are
not yet a political party. At present, this website, which was created
on the 20th of January, 2004, represents our only means of communicating
with the public. The major goals of this website are ....
- to provide an institution within
which Egalitarianists can unite
(by becoming members) and begin the process of gaining a voice
within the grater society, and
- to begin the process of
educating the public about ...
- Egalitarianism (and to allow
people to challenge the AEM),
- why we will be much better off
within an Egalitarian society,
- how the AEM's Egalitarian
economy and governance works, and
- the invalidity of, and the
creation of most social problems within all forms of
elitism, particularly capitalism.
Since the creation of this website, the
size of our membership is slowly increasing, the majority being
international members.
The AEM, to a much lesser extent, also
represents a different type of democracy, which allows citizens to vote
on policies and ideas rather than for the people who proffer these
policies or ideas. Also, we allow citizens to vote on each issue
separately, rather than to vote for a person or party that represents a
wide-spread and diverse package of policies. See why in our 'The
Democratic and Undemocratic Nature of the AEM's Egalitarian
Society' web page. As with another of our policies for government,
anybody is welcome to proffer ideas to, or challenge the AEM about
how to run any aspect of the Egalitarian society. We appreciate your
input, and we will always respond.
While the AEM has proffered a generalised
plan for how the Egalitarian society will be administered, the AEM has not yet drawn
up an Egalitarian Constitution for Australia.
Since we are intending to create something completely new, we thought
that we would open up the discussion so that anybody else who has put thought into the issue may contribute their
ideas for the Egalitarian Constitution of Australia. When we become a
political party, we will draw up a tentative Egalitarian constitution,
which will allow the public, and the powers that be, plenty of time to
contemplate it, to challenged it, and to modified it when sensible ideas
are proffered.
