Solneman
(Kurt H. Zube)
An Anarchist Manifesto
The Manifesto of Peace and Freedom
The Alternative to the Communist Manifesto
(1977)
Note
Kurt Zube offers us here a full exposition of the bases of panarchic anarchy, a very practical conception of social organization condensed in the aspiration: "to each the government or non government of his dreams."
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.
This book won the First Alternative Peace Prize at the Alternative Book Fair in Frankfurt/M., West Germany, in 1977
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. EITHER - OR!
Domination by Abstract and Fixed Ideas
The Realistic Starting Point
Confucius Against Confusion
The Fixed Idea of Domination
3. IDEOLOGY AND REALITY OF THE STATE
The Main Functions of the State: Suppression and Exploitation
The State as Caretaker and Patron
The State as Criminal
Is the State a Necessary Evil?
4. THE IDEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS TO REALITY
Refuted Predictions and False Contentions
The Process of Production, Realistically Seen and How Exploitation Can Be Avoided
The End of an Illusion
5. THE IDEOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS TO REALITY
How The Real Whole Can Make Decisions
To Everyone the State of His Dreams!
6. THE NEW FIRST PRINCIPLE - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY: A FIRM FOUNDATION
The Fundamental Difference Between "Is" and "Ought"
The Answer to Pilate's Question
The New Question and the Inescapable Alternative
Too Much Asserted - Too Much Demanded?
7. THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE EQUAL FREEDOM OF ALL
Equal Freedom of All as Regards Land
Equal Freedom of All in the Exchange of the Products of Labour
The "Sovereign Functions " of the State
Autonomous Protective and Social Communities
New Formulation of Human Rights
Open Productive Associations (OPA Enterprises)
8. REAL ANARCHISM AND ITS AIMS
The Criterion for Genuine Anarchism
The Unique Feature of Anarchism
The Starting Point and the Pivot Upon Which Everything Turns
The Social Order of Anarchism
Anarchism - A Socialistic System
"Anarchists" Who Are Not Anarchists
9. THE ROAD TO ANARCHY - TO A SOCIETY WITHOUT CLASSES AND WITHOUT DOMINATION
Preparation for the Liquidation of the State
Emancipation from the State
10. AN APPEAL BY THE ANARCHISTS TO EVERYBODY
Liberals and Social Reformers
The Communist Manifesto
A Necessary Distinction