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(An) Anarchist Manifesto The Manifesto of Peace and Freedom This version of an Anarchist Manifesto is a work by Kurt Helmut Zube writing under the pseudonym KHZ Solneman (1905-1991) and was translated to English from German by Doris Pfaff and John Zube. This work received a First Alternative Peace Prize at the Alternative Book Fair in Frankfurt. Published by Mackay-Gesellschaft 1977, the work offers an alternative way of thinking that highlights the importance of unilateral agreement on non-domination and equal freedom. Synopsis The central theme of An Anarchist Manifesto is that the normal measures for the modern State are critically stereotyped and a new way of thinking is needed to achieve Zube's notion of "equal freedom". Zube begins with citing all prior revolutions of the 20th century as just past revolts and not as true revolutions. It then presumes the likelihood of humans to be of corrupt and poorly programmed in their understanding of the present state of being a piece of modern society that works under false coercion from the State. It states that a clear choice is necessary to attain "equal freedom", and no dictatorship or force should be needed to achieve this goal. The alternative thinking was directed towards theological, communist and property ownership ideologies currently held by Western society at the time of publication. The Manifesto states that a persons fundamental idea of superiority and inferiority is a distinction without a difference, the difference being only applicable when the person in a superior context needs commodification of the person in the inferior context. With a dissection of the problems of the Marxist version of communism, the manifesto hinges on the inability for all of society to work together towards a unilateral goal. By separating the illusion of mankind needing domination for structure, dependency and growth and comprehending the reality of domination being for the sole purpose of feeding the personal ego, Zube highlights the importance of personal independence and self-sufficiency. Claiming that the State's main functions is domination through suppression and exploitation, the work highlights that the advent of capitalism being brought about by a States borders and domination of the individuals within them. The way that a person can reassess the current status of mankind is by following Zube's New First Principle. His predetermination of state dissolution would be for all corresponding organisations of the state to be based strictly on volunteerism as the norms of moral law already are what governs individuals. In his chapter on The Consequences of the Equal Freedom of All Zube highlights the errors made in the distinction between that of "liberties" and that of "freedom" using a principle of how the equal freedom for all begins with the individual human being and not with the abstraction of "man", which he states as have always being plagued with delusions. The Manifesto also elaborates the tone of non-aggression, albeit it nullified by the defensive reactions to many maxims of state power. The main contention is to follow the Law of the Jungle. Conventions on Communism The Manifesto notions contrasting ideas with Marxist Communism. It states how Marxist Communism had a contradiction of aiming for all citizens having equality but still having the need for dictatorship. Zube cites how current forms of Capitalism are far closer to attaining a theoretically sound middle-class where the inequalities in most modern day republics are dismal. It claims that the reason there was such unrest in the republics was due to a small amount of the population having absolute authority and domination over the masses. The theory of how exploitation can be avoided starts with the issues of a monopoly and how that is introduced by the States ownership and management of all resources available. The illusion Zube writes about is that for total State control, one is giving into the ultimate form of a monopoly. The subsequent modern form of Democracy is a partitioned version of Communism. Conventions on Democracy Democracy and Its contradictions to reality, based off the idea of the people as an ideological swindle. He mentions how individuals replace the locus of the centralised individual such as monarchs and create the small yet conglomerate parts of the whole abstract idea of government. land owners By abandoning unjustified privileges, monopolies and oligarchies can those in the upper tier of society be truly free from the oppression and prudence of the State. Genuine Anarchism Goals Anarchy, literally and without regard to its content, means non-domination (no government). Never has a society been able to practice complete anarchism, however it is an ordinal scale with degrees going towards and away from absolute anarchism. The idea that disorder and chaos is violent and non-life sustaining is unfounded due to lack of practice within these principles. Zube claims that the true anarchist is one who denounces domination over others and voluntarily respects the limit of equal freedom for themselves and others. The person must also be able to act accordingly against unintentional or negligent offences against their equal freedom. The Manifesto states that true domination comes from within a persons dogmatism towards a certain belief and the slippery-slope fallacy is taken into effect when the belief is believed to be beneficial for mankind. The concrete expression is that anarchism rejects not only the State as a compulsory organization and the main aggressor, but any other compulsory organization which tries to establish itself within the aforementioned State. The New First Principle The way that a person can reassess the current status of mankind is by following Zube's New First Principle. The first principle states "one has to realise that the mass of human convictions of the religious moral social and political kind, have little to do with the precepts of reason. or at least with careful consideration of the pros and cons. but are nothing other then habits, prejudices, suggestions, and wishful dreams to which the persons concerned never applied the critical reasoning and examination".

I'm leaving it here in case someone can use this. ReaderofthePack (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:14, 30 May 2018 (UTC)