The Manifesto of Peace and Freedom

This work begins with a clarification of much used — and mis-used — concepts such as: FREEDOM-, FORCE, and ANARCHY. It launches a critical attack upon prevalent stereotyped ideas about the nature of the modern State. It goes on to present new thought-processes as well as concrete suggestions for the realization of equal freedom for all:

1) Equal access to natural resources and
distribution of the land-rent to everyone
(especially in the cities);

2) Freedom of the means of exchange (of
money and credit);

3) Open associations of management (and
absurdity of unemployment);

4) Autonomous legal and social communities (genuine pluralism and freedom of choice).

Above all, THE MANIFESTO offers an alternative way of thinking, which, as Albert Einstein has said, is necessary if we are to avoid catastrophe. Laying the basis for new social relationships upon general agreement instead of ideology, it presents the reader with an inevitable choice: either the law of the sword and aggressive force — or non-domination and equal freedom!

This book won the First Alternative Peace Prize at the Alternative Book Fair in Frankfurt/M., West-Germany in 1977

(Back cover)

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K.H.Z. SOLNEMAN

(Kurt H. Zube, 1905 - 1991)

THE

MANIFESTO

_OF

_PEACE

_AND

^FREEDOM

THE ALTERNATIVE

TO THE

COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

1983

MACKAY-GESELLSCHAFT

Frei burg/Br.

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Previously microfiched in PEACE PLANS 1324 but only in the John Zube version of the translation by Doris Pfaff, with his notes.

(These notes were left out in the printed edition. To these old notes some more were added during the digitisation.)

The manuscript for the printed book edition was edited by Prof. Edward Mornin.

I microfiched my version of the translation, in PEACE PLANS Nos. 64 & 65.

Please do also compare the different notes by myself in the recently digitized German edition of the original. To find my notes use "find" for "J.Z."

PIOT, John Zube, 3. 4. 2004.

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Translated from the German by Doris Pfaff and John Zube.

Edited by Edward Mornin.

First published by the MACKAY-GESELLSCHAFT,

Freiburg/Br.,

West Germany in 1977. ISBN 3-921388-12-0

This book won the First Alternative Peace Prize at the Alternative Book Fair in Frankfurt/M., West Germany, in 1977

1983

MACKAY-GESELLSCHAFT, Freiburg/Br.

Druckerei in der Mühle, Werdorf

ISBN 3-921388-57-0

MACKAY-SOCIETY, Mark A. Sullivan, Secretary

227 Columbus Ave., 2 E, New York, NY 10023, USA

The MACKAY-SOCIETY, which is undogmatic and anti-ideological, publishes and distributes writings by and about John Henry Mackay, and, in addition, other works that explore and advocate individual sovereignty and equal freedom in all areas of human life.

For more information, please contact the Secretary:

Mark A. Sullivan

277 Columbus Avenue, 2 E

New York, NY 10023 (USA)

(As far as I know, this Mackay Society has been inactive for many years!

- J.Z., 1.4.04.) ___________________________________________________________

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ESSENTIAL TERMS.............................................................. viii

1. EITHER - OR! ...................................................................... 1

2. ILLUSION AND REALITY..................................................... 3

Domination by Abstract and Fixed Ideas ................................ 5

The Realistic Starting Point.................................................... 24

Confucius Against Confusion................................................. 27

The Fixed Idea of Domination ............................................... 36

3. IDEOLOGY AND REALITY OF THE STATE ......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 41

The Main Functions of the State: Suppression and Exploitation 46

The State as Caretaker and Patron ..................................... 58

The State as Criminal ............................................................ 66

Is the State a Necessary Evil?................................................. 68

4. THE IDEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND

ITS CONTRADICTIONS TO REALITY............................. 72

Refuted Predictions and False Contentions ........................... 73

The Process of Production, Realistically Seen —

and How Exploitation Can Be Avoided .............................. 95

The End of an Illusion ......................................................... 102

5. THE IDEOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY AND

ITS CONTRADICTIONS TO REALITY............................ 107

How The Real Whole Can Make Decisions.......................... 123

To Everyone the State of His Dreams! ............................... 126

6. THE NEW FIRST PRINCIPLE - FOR THE FIRST

TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY: A FIRM FOUNDATION 132

The Fundamental Difference Between "Is" and "Ought" ........ 134

The Answer to Pilate's Question ........................................ 136

The New Question and the Inescapable Alternative ............. 140

Too Much Asserted — Too Much Demanded?..................... 147

7. THE CONSEQUENCE OF

THE EQUAL FREEDOM OF ALL.......................... .......... 153

Equal Freedom of All as Regards Land................................. 157

Equal Freedom of All in the Exchange of the Products of Labour 162

The "Sovereign Functions " of the State................................. 164

Autonomous Protective and Social Communities.................... 166

New Formulation of Human Rights ...................................... 169

Open Productive Associations (OP A Enterprises)................ 173

VII

8. REAL ANARCHISM AND ITS AIMS ................................ 178

The Criterion for Genuine Anarchism.................................... 180

The Unique Feature of Anarchism....................................... 181

The Starting Point and the Pivot Upon Which Everything Turns 183

The Social Order of Anarchism............................................ 189

Anarchism — A Socialistic System .................................... 192

"Anarchists" Who Are Not Anarchists ................................ 196

9. THE ROAD TO ANARCHY - TO A SOCIETY

WITHOUT CLASSES AND WITHOUT DOMINATION ........... 208

Emancipation from the State................................................. 212

10. AN APPEAL BY THE ANARCHISTS TO EVERYBODY... 219

Liberals and Social Reformers.............................................. 221

The Communist Manifesto................................................... 222

A Necessary Distinction ................................................... 227

11. THE INDISPENSABLE PRECONDITION FOR PEACE ... 231

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viii

ESSENTIAL TERMS

used in this book

"If we want to discuss any important and interesting topic for an hour, then we ought first to spend four hours reaching agreement on the terms to be used. Otherwise we will talk past each other."

Prof. Carl Ludwig Schleich

The following concepts will be used as defined below:

FREEDOM: This is not a subjective, but an objective and quite exactly definable concept when we are dealing with freedom in a social context. Either my freedom is greater than that of another person, by occurring at his or their expense (in which case they are not free) or it is less than that of another person or group, at my expense (in which case I am not free). In either case there is no state of freedom. Freedom can, therefore, mean nothing other than equal freedom (not equality!) for all — which is essentially identical with non-domination.

DOMINATION: is a state of unequal freedom. Here the freedom of some is greater than the freedom of others and occurs at their expense and against their will. Thus a condition of unequal freedom which exists with the consent of the disadvantaged is not domination.

FORCE: is the physical or mental coercion exercised in an aggressive way, e.g. by injuring the equal freedom sphere of others. Defence against such aggression, including physical means, should thus not be considered as force.

METAPHYSICS: This comprises all concepts and doctrines which go beyond the realm of sensibly and logically graspable experienced reality and which, therefore, cannot be proven either true or false. Here one may leave open the question as to whether these concepts and doctrines expressing a subjective reality of experience and transcendent reality also represent an actual reality, perhaps even the true reality, or whether they are merely vacuous games of thought. When something cannot be proven with the standards of experienced reality then one can just as easily assert