John Zube

1. WHAT?

Panarchy (or aterritorial multigovernments - or Polyarchy or Personarchy) as the general framework for all the different degrees of liberty and/or restraint which individuals want for themselves in their own associations and voluntary communities, quite independent from those of others.
All presently compulsory memberships (e.g. in states, armed forces and trade unions) to become voluntary.
Territorial and collectivist monopoly claims (for large areas, occupied by many dissenting people) are no longer to be recognized and upheld. Thus territorial borders are to disappear, via peaceful "one-person-revolutions."

2. WHO?

All individuals who volunteer to participate in the realization or conservation of one or other ideal, reform, experiment, tradition or custom, together with all like-minded people, anywhere, always and only at their own risk and expense, without infringing the individual rights and liberties of anyone else.
In short: Free individuals, without "royal charters" and territorial monopoly claims, aware of their equal rights and liberties - and respecting those of others.
Primarily dissenting minorities striving for self-rule.
All governments in exile already existing or still to be established, which do not favour any new monopoly power extended over the whole population of any territory.
All revolutionaries and freedom fighters who aim at no more than the development of freedom, so that they can gain the greatest number either of supporters or of people neutral towards them.
Thus, even the enemies of liberties are not provoked into desperate resistance. They can try to enjoy their own more or less authoritarian panarchies, as long as they accept them, directly and personally.
The federations of all autonomous communities, freely and peacefully coexisting and competing with each other for members, like many churches and insurance companies do - although they may dislike each other.

3. WHEREBY?

Individual sovereignty, individual secessionism, individualism, voluntarism, self-help, associationism, aterritorial autonomy and personal laws for the members of voluntary communities.
These new organizations are to realize full freedom to experiment, freedom of action and full autonomy for all, always and only at their own expense and risk.

Consumer sovereignty to prevail in all spheres in which politicians and bureaucrats have hitherto blocked or obstructed it.
Individuals to become free to choose for themselves and abide by different political, economic and social systems - with different membership contracts, constitutions, personal laws, fees and/or subscriptions.

4. HOW?

By reclaiming individual independence through withdrawal or disassociation of individuals from the existing territorial states, with freedom from imposed tributes, institutions, laws and jurisdiction, and also claiming their shares in the remaining capital assets of the territorial states from which they withdraw.
However, the individuals must declare their readiness to pay their shares of the costs of institutions they are still using or want to use in common with the territorial statists. Details are to be peacefully negotiated or settled by arbitration.
Those who have withdrawn from the existing territorial states are to be free to run whatever contributory, budgetary, electoral and administrative system they want for themselves.
By the establishment of alternative, voluntary, aterritorial and parallel institutions, governments, non-governmental societies or experimental systems, with their own constitutions, personal laws, jurisdiction, policing and other services, in free competition with the existing territorial ones, freed from the burdens and regulations imposed upon their territorial counterparts.
For example, freedom for alternative institutions and practices concerning education, police, courts, prisons, parks, libraries, banks, currencies, finance systems, and so on.
By way of individual consumer or contractor preferences, let the good and competitive institutions and services peacefully drive out the inferior ones, which are still imposed upon whole populations.
The individuals who have chosen to remain members of the former territorial states could retain all the laws and institutions they like - but could no longer force them upon others.

5. WHY?

Because territorial institutions, with their monopolies, size, power addicts' bureaucracy, and conventional territorial politics, have led to continuous strife among contending parties. Strife and corruption are among the lesser evils, while national wars, violent revolutions and official or group terrorism are the major evils.
With state contestants now largely armed with ABC mass murder devices or other all too efficient tools for killing and destruction, the price to be paid for territorialism - in freedom, rights, security, blood and tribute-money, even in the very survivability of human beings - has become much too large to be tolerable any longer.
Peace, justice, freedom, progress and enlightenment can only become sufficiently assured and speeded up aterritorially and voluntarily, by freedom of action for all to go their own ways towards their own ideals, at their own risk and expense and also to their own benefit.
Motives and opportunities for aggressions and crimes would become minimized.
Even the targets for mass extermination devices would dissolve.

6. WHEN?

Whenever the time is ripe for significant secessionist and self-help steps, such as during galloping inflations, by then introducing new, stable and competing currencies; during mass unemployment, achieving full employment via alternatively issued reliable media of exchange or clearing avenues, as well as alternative and sound value standards, all subject to refusals or discounting by all their potential acceptors.
When a territorial government wants to start another unjust war.
Whenever a despot becomes unbearable.
When governments do not sufficiently uphold the rights and liberties of citizens.
When all minor self-help options become insufficient or blocked.
When military insurrections and violent revolutions need averting.
When sufficient freedom of expression and information no longer exists.
When emigration and immigration are largely prevented.

7. WHERE?

In all countries and continents where minorities and majorities are dissatisfied, suppressed, or exploited.
That is, practically, everywhere.

PRECEDENTS, DEMONSTRATIONS, EXAMPLES

Religious liberty.
Voluntary business partnerships.
Dissent, divorce and voluntary separation within family and friendship circles.
Personal laws, arbitration courts, freedom of association and disassociation in various clubs and organizations.
Competition between different sports and sports clubs, charities, scientific associations, universities.
Consumer sovereignty.
Choice of doctors, medicines, jobs, hobbies, crafts, meals, contracts, tourist attractions, clothing, houses, gardening options, entertainment, arts involvements.
All the numerous daily choices of individuals to the extent that they are not pre-empted by government laws, regulations and institutions.

jzube@acenet.com.au

35 Oxley St., or P.O. Box 52, Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia,
Tel.: (02) 48 771 436.