But to really kind of personify the movement, they wanted to name it.

The right to political participation is an inherent component of the right to self determination and should be based upon the will of the people rather than that of the national authorities claiming to personify the State.

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension dominated flatland, we live in a social world. We swim through a sea of people a social version of Middle World.