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worst of situations. As wage-earners are a type of slave and their slavery exists as long as
they work for wages, domestic servants, whose position is lower than that of wage-
earners in economic establishments and corporations, have an even greater need to be
emancipated from the society of wage-labour and the society of slaves.
Domestic servants is a phenomenon that comes next to slavery.
The Third Universal Theory heralds emancipation from the fetters of injustice, despotism,
exploitation, and economic and political hegemony, for the purpose of establishing a
society of all the people where all are free and share equally in authority, wealth and arms.
Freedom will then triumph definitively and universally.
THE GREEN BOOK thus defines the path of liberation to masses of wage-earners and
domestic servants in order that human beings may achieve freedom. The struggle to
liberate domestic servants from their status of slavery and to transform them into
partners, where their material production can be divided into its necessary basic
components, is an inevitable process. Households should be serviced by their habitants.
Essential household services should not be performed by domestic servants, paid or
unpaid, but by employees who can be promoted in rendering their services and can enjoy
social and material benefits as any other public employee would.
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PART THREE - THE SOCIAL BASIS OF THE THIRD UNIVERSAL THEORY
The social factor, the national factor, is the dynamic force of human history. The social
bond, which binds together human communities from the family through the tribe to the
nation, is the basis for the movement of history.
Heroes in history are, by definition, those who have sacrificed for causes. But what
causes? They sacrificed for the sake of others, but which others? They are those with
whom they maintain a relationship. Therefore, the relationship between an individual and a
group is a social one that governs the people's dealings amongst themselves.
Nationalism, then, is the base upon which one nation emerges. Social causes are therefore
national, and the national relationship is a social one. The social relationship is derived
from society, i.e., the relationship among members of one nation. The social relationship
is, therefore, a national relationship and the national is a social relationship. Even if small
in number, communities or groups form one nation regardless of the individual
relationship amongst its members. What is meant here by a community is that which is
permanent because of the common national ties that govern it.
Historic movements are mass movements, i.e., the movement of one group in its own
interests differentiated from the interests of other communities. These differentiations
indicate the social characteristics that bind a community together. Mass movements are
independent movements to assert the identity of a group conquered or oppressed by
another group.
The struggle for authority happens within the group itself down to the level of the family,
as was explained in Part 1 of THE GREEN BOOK: The Political Axis of the Third Universal
Theory. A group movement is a nation's movement for its own interests. By virtue of its
national structure, each group has common social needs which must be collectively
satisfied. These needs are in no way individualistic; they are collective needs, rights,
demands, or objectives of a nation which are linked by a single ethos. That is why these
movements are called national movements. Contemporary national liberation movements
are themselves social movements; they will not come to an end before every group is
liberated from the domination of another group. The world is now passing through one of
the regular cycles of the movement of history, namely, the social struggle in support of
nationalism.
In the world of man, this is as much a historical reality as it is a social reality. That means
that the national struggle - the social struggle - is the basis of the movement of history. It
is stronger than all other factors since it is in the nature of the human group; it is in the
nature of the nation; it is the nature of life itself. Other animals, apart from man, live in
groups. Indeed, just as the community is the basis for the survival of all groups within the
animal kingdom, so nationalism is the basis for the survival of nations.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. Minorities, which are one of
the main political problems in the world, are the outcome. They are nations whose
nationalism has been destroyed and which are thus torn apart. The social factor is,
therefore, a factor of life - a factor of survival. It is the nation's innate momentum for
survival.
Nationalism in the human world and group instinct in the animal kingdom are like gravity
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