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54 LMP ONGOING PROJECTS:

1.) ON PANARCHY: An Encyclopaedia on Panarchism. The first 19 volumes are out, on 19 fiche, in the sub-series ON PANARCHY. These are supplemented by some textbooks on exterritoriality and individual secessionism and autonomy. A few more volumes are to be added. Then an alphabetical index is to pull this materials collection together into an encyclopaedia. A preliminary bibliography on panarchism has already been compiled on 56 pages in PP 1540.

2.) SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY, an encyclopaedia of slogans, sayings, proverbs, definitions, concise arguments, aphorisms, short explanations, quotes etc., as comprehensive and every growing as can presently be offered. Collaboration by many is invited. About 15,000 volumes of quotation books ought to be perused for this by collaborators and relevant extracts ought to be made from all freedom texts. - The first 4 volumes are out, on 4 microfiche, 840 pages, A4, for A - Democracy. Another 10 - 20 have still to be produced. I have x meters of index cards filled with them, which have still to be sorted and key-boarded or dictated in. In the end they are to be combined on a CD-ROM or several one, and, naturally, on a set of microfiche. Some short compilations of freedom quotations are already offered on the Internet and a few general quotation books but no more than a tiny fraction of these treasures has so far been effectively combined. With regard to such efforts unity and centralization does make sense. But e.g. for political, economic and social systems the opposite is the case: Strength lies in the toleration and promotion of diversity, choice and experimental freedom, promoted by individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities.

3.) LIBERTARIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A start could be made with a combination of the existing pro-freedom A-Z compilations, now offered in a number of separate books. I have collected and somewhere listed some such books. Probably many more exist. Authors and publishers of such compilations should be asked for permissions to combine their offers into a single libertarian encyclopaedia and to allow unlimited expansion of the combination by anyone willing to contribute to it. They would be free to use the combined work as an advertisement medium for their separate and smaller offers, which they could and should also offer, much more cheaply and permanently, in affordable alternative media.

4.) BEST REFUTATIONS ENCYCLOPAEDIA: For popular errors, prejudices and myths that are obstacles to progress towards freedom, justice, peace, prosperity, life extension and our expansion to other planets and the stars. I have collected hints towards such an encyclopaedia for over 40 years but have not yet pulled all of them together or translated the German ones. Again, a division of labour process and world-wide collaboration would be required to bring out the first large edition of such an encyclopaedia, which could multiply the effectiveness of most libertarians and anarchists.

5.) MOST SUITABLE WORDINGS WHEN SPEAKING WITH OPPONENTS: A handbook of the most suitable wordings, from persuasive and polite ones to insulting and down-putting ones, according to the occasion, and nature and behaviour of the opponents one encounters. Many unnecessary confrontations could be avoided by optimal wordings and many counter-productive objectors could be more effectively shut up. I have collected numerous entries towards such a work but they have still to be key-boarded or dictated in or transcribed and scanned in. (I have often difficulties with decoding my own handwriting.)

6.) AN ALPHABETIZED HANDBOOK ON MONETARY FREEDOM: I have long intended to compile a handbook on monetary freedom and free banking and have postponed it for years, until I would have published all Beckerath writings at least in German, if not also in English translations. I will also try to offer his already microfiched 3 monetary freedom books online, once I have digitized them. Some compilations of this kind have been made, in German and English, but they have still to be supplemented by much accumulated material and by extracts from the Beckerath writings, those already microfiched and those still to be published and translated. This, too, is intended as a work open to supplementary and critical entries by all others who are interested. I have compiled, a few years ago, a 124pp bibliography on free banking and monetary freedom and fiched it. It ought to be greatly expanded still but I have not yet found the time and energy to do so. Help is welcomed and needed to achieve sufficient completeness.

7.) BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF PRO FREEDOM WRITINGS: A few have been microfiched by LMP. More are intended. All are welcomed in this series. A complete one is aimed at and all contributions towards a complete one would be welcomed. Again, no copyrights are claimed or offered. Someone a few years ago compiled an anarchist one from the Internet. It only appeared in a book length library edition, copyrighted, and priced ca. $ 50. In this form it might as well not be compiled and offered at all. Moreover, in this format it will tend to remain almost forever incomplete. I fiched its predecessor, whose co-author, Graham Purchase, according to him, was not even mentioned in the final edition. I have my own compilation, so far only on disk and waiting for supplementary entries by myself.

8.) MICROFILM OPTIONS FOR FREEDOM LOVERS, AS READERS AND PUBLISHERS: I have started an alphabetical compilation on this but it still needs much more input and editing to become a worthwhile book. Anyone's help is welcomed for this work, too.

9.) IDEAS ARCHIVE: For 50 years I have been a fan of the Ideas Archive conceived by my father, Kurt Zube, back in 1939 and partly realized for a few years after WWII. I have promoted this idea as far and wherever and towards whoever I could, with not much to show for. I reproduced his introductory work, in the German original and in my English translation and the set of his magazines and newsletters on it. A second book by him on this subject, on the commercial realization of this project, using some of the publicity funds of big corporations, is still to be published, scanned or dictated or keyboarded in, as well as translated at least into English, from the faded but typed German manuscript. Some somewhat related ideas archives do now exist on the Internet, foremost the GLOBAL IDEAS BANK of Nicholas Albery. Alas, it concentrates only on what he perceives to be "social inventions", rather than libertarian and anarchist ideas only, which I tend to promote in my PEACE PLANS series on microfiche. In PEACE PLANS No. 20 I reproduced a list of ca. 1,000 libertarian projects, in the hope to promote international collaboration on all of them, by 1,000 different and self-organized libertarian groups. That list has still to be expanded by abstracts of these ideas, as well as some 1-5 page elaborations of each. And supplemented by the dozens to hundreds of other libertarian ideas that you might care to advance. In combination such a collection could provide the beginnings of a libertarian projects list as well as a comprehensive libertarian encyclopaedia and, much more importantly, a scheme for the international division of labour among anarchists and libertarians.

10.) I have a collection of anarchist essays by Laurance Labadie. They have still to be readied for filming. They form almost an encyclopaedia of individualist anarchism.

11) I posses the incomplete manuscript of the magnum opus of Don Werkheiser but have still to transcribe, dictate or scan it in for microfiching. When I visited him in 1990, he had given up hope of being able to finish it and was already 75 years old and seemed unwilling to acquire and utilize a cheap word processor for this job.

12) I have many but not all of the Freedom Newspaper columns of Robert LeFevre. They have still to readied for fiching.

13) Many people have suggested to me that I transform my literature list into a databank, that is, that I undertake all the keyboarding labours involved. I have neither found the ideal databank program for this project nor the time and energy to undertake it. David Taylor made a start on it, up to ca. PEACE PLANS No. 850 but then he got sick and died while I was collecting literature in the US, in 1990/91. I do not know what became of his databank on his Amiga system. Anyhow, I would rather list and describe ideas than merely catalogue texts into various keys to somewhat facilitate the labours of some other researchers. My LMP listing, with all its remaining flaws and omissions, is already digitized and can be searched for any word in it on any computer, by anyone interested, who got from me the whole on disk or, once it is on the Internet, online. Then he or she may arrange the lot in any databank system they like. I do doubt that new ideas are suitable for being sorted into any kind of formal classification system or that it could operate better than an alphabetized order with numerous cross references. Classifiers and abstractors, reviewers and bibliographers rarely fully comprehend new ideas in books – or manage to overlook them altogether.

14.) A combined listing of all freedom texts, that are in print through anyone in any medium. The separate listings are not as effective as a combined one could be. I for one see no good reason to leave out the texts in alternative media, as most of the BOOKS IN PRINT editions do. For instance, fiche, floppies, CD-ROMs, audio and video editions should be included, as well as the photocopies of back issues of magazines, which are offered by activists like Jim Stumm. A mail order service with a common listing for all these offers or a networked supply by mail of all of them, from a common listing.

15.) Second-hand freedom books offered for sale should be listed in digitized lists that should be kept and combined towards a freedom bibliography. Likewise, at least lists of the rarer freedom books which freedom literature collectors have in their private libraries, should be combined. Listing at least the rarer titles in my own freedom library, apart from those which I have already microfiched, is another project that I have all too often and for all too long postponed. But, obviously, I am not alone in this. Such listings, sorted together, could also facilitate the reproduction of the rarer titles in alternative media, if the owners are willing to photocopy them themselves or let them be photocopied. - John Harlee ran a second-hand freedom book mail order service for a while, until he died, and he produced many lists with often interesting comments to titles. These lists and other such lists should all be scanned in and combined, alphabetized. Book lovers should be free to add their comments.16.) I have still on hand material to fill hundreds of LMP microfiche and continue to collect more. Even with the cost savings and efficiencies of micrographics, provided by a modern, automated and computerized service bureau, I cannot tackle and finish the whole job by myself, namely making all freedom writings available in this format. My effort can be no more than a pilot scheme or example for the 100 - 300 activists required for this. I do intend, though, to expand my series to PEACE PLANS No. 2,000. If that example, then, would still not serve, together with the other large offers on microfilm, provided by some others, which might already bring the total to 10,000 libertarian microfiche, then nothing might. You can lead a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink.17.) I do hope to induce some day, some year, enough libertarian and anarchist magazines and organizations, writers, editors and publishers to at least mention and discuss the micrographic options as freedom of information and expression options for most libertarians and anarchists, and to use them themselves, at least for their out-of-print back issues and for texts that they could not afford to produce otherwise. So far most of them have been all too conservative in their stand towards this and other alternative publishing and reading options. Why should THEY deal with this freedom opportunity as little as the mass media and conventional book publishers do? At least in the somewhat developed countries almost anyone could afford to engage in considerable self-publishing in this format, with little expense and risk, making his favourite titles so available upon demand.

18.) I attempt to list all freedom titles offered on microfilm by others, to the extent that I find out about them. I am aware that my compilations of such offers are still very incomplete, mainly because I do not have access to the catalogues of some whole economics libraries that have been put on microfilms, not even the full catalogue of Chadwyck Healey's anarchist pamphlet collection and because I do not know the freedom literature well enough to recognize each relevant title and author, when I find them listed without being indicated as anarchist or libertarian titles. A much more complete listing of these offers would again require the collaboration of many others. I would love to reproduce the catalogues of anarchist titles in the LABADIE COLLECTION, in the CIRA library, the Library of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and in any large other freedom library, if they were offered in good print-outs or on disk. - The IISH has supposedly microfilmed many titles, in a preservation or publishing effort but I was so far unable to obtain a list of these titles from them. Their whole catalog is supposedly on the Web but I my first attempt to get access to it was in vain. When I visited the LABADIE COLLECTION in 1990 only ca. 12,000 of its ca. 20,000 titles were catalogued and funds and professional librarians for further cataloguing efforts were in short supply and laymen kept from these treasures - although laymen and laywomen had built up the collection. Too many freedom book collections ended up in the hands of bureaucrats, largely inaccessible for photocopying.19.) Among the several collections of anarchist books in U.S. libraries is one at the private university: Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois: I was able, through a very open-minded administrator, to photocopy several of its works for fiching and to sponsor others, already too brittle for photocopying, for reproduction on roll film. In this format you can buy these titles from them. I listed them. Ca. 3,000 pages of anarchists texts are involved, on 2 roll films, that would cost you US $ 75. I sponsored that filming with ca. $ 250 and got my 2 roll films free. Perhaps you can find other libraries as amenable to such deals of proxy-self publishing, subsidized by yourself, for your favourite freedom titles. For instance: John Henry Mackay's library ended up in Moscow or Leningrad and would by now be accessible. Perhaps a good deal could be struck there, now, by someone interested. But he might have to import a good photocopying machine first. I did reproduce a typewritten list of that library. Other U.S. libraries with anarchist collections are: N.Y. Public Library, Columbia University, University of Michigan (Labadie Collection), University of Wisconsin. See also the Collection started by J. Kaplan, of which I have fiched some listings and will fiche more.

20.) I am prepared to exchange LMP microfiche, one for one, for quantities of quality anarchist or libertarian microfiche, up to 50 duplicates of a title, produced by others, provided I am interested in the title and satisfied with the quality or reproduction. Send a sample first. I would then list their titles in the LMP list and sell the duplicates thus acquired. In this way independent libertarian microfiche publishers could build up a large collection of libertarian titles fast and cheaply. Imagine how much 50 or even 500 libertarian microfiche publishers could thus do for each other - and, later on, hopefully, for many others, even if each of them produced only, let us say, 10 libertarian microfiche per annum, instead of my average of ca. 70.21.) I try to induce libertarian and anarchist writers to reserve to themselves at least the option to self-publish their works in affordable alternative media once their conventional publisher no longer cares much or at all about their title, keeps it out of print and does not offer it in an affordable alternative medium. - Publishers tend to reserve to themselves all rights - and then not to do anything with the alternative publishing options. Authors are often so happy that they achieved a temporary and limited paper edition that they forget about its likely future fate and about alternative publishing options and thus sign over all other rights as well - only to find them unused later on. Conventional publishers should at least, by contract, lose the alternative rights when they make no use of them after a title is out of print.

22.) COMPREHENSIVE AND FREQUENTLY UPDATED LIBERTARIAN AND ANARCHIST DIRECTORIES: They should, as far as possible, list special interests and projects as well, in order to facilitate collaboration and division of labour. It seems that not even all Internet and e-mail addresses of libertarians and anarchists have so far been listed together.

23.) I would like to induce literary agencies, vanity presses, authors' publishing coops and movement groups to utilize their alternative publishing options, particularly when acceptance for and success of paper publishing is in doubt and their own subsidy funds are rather limited. But for most it seems to be print on paper or nothing. A vanity publishing house should be able to be successful by offering much lower sponsorship options in alternative media. And in these media, too, it could offer different degrees of services at their different and competitive prices. One such agency could advertise: We publish all submissions - that do not lead to legal prosecution for us, at least upon demand and in one alternative medium for as little as $ 50 - $ 100, depending upon the number of pages involved in a standard book manuscript. Naturally, for retyping, editing and various listing and advertising efforts they would have to charge more. But at least no technical and economic reason would remain for leaving any book unpublished that was intended for publication.

24.) LIBERTARIAN WORLD LIBRARY OR WORLD LIBRARY NETWORK. It should not only offer reading rooms for the few able and willing to visit it, now and then, and some loan facilities, but, rather, cheap duplicates, produced on alternative media, for sale by mail or online. The production of further such duplicates could be sponsored by those interested in particular texts or financed out of the profits such a library service could make from the sale of its duplicates in alternative media. A comprehensive freedom library service in each major country should be aimed at - and could be achieved relatively fast and cheaply by using alternative media in their strengths and the potential of almost every freedom lover as a freedom publisher for several freedom texts in alternative media. See my short paper on a Libertarian Information Paradise, based on 10 such centres using microfiche. No new library building or professional librarians would be required. A small spare room in a private larger house would be enough.

25.) LIBERTARIAN AND ANARCHIST ABSTRACT COMPILATIONS: They could be very long, frequently updated and supplemented, when provided on affordable alternative media. On them it would be possible not only to reproduce a single and more or less objective abstract by one reader but several and divergent ones. One abstract can rarely do a thoughtful book sufficient justice. Many people are so far likely to fail finding particular freedom writings that would be of great interest to them because such an abstracting service does not yet exist for our kind of literature. It could start with a combination of the separate literature lists already offered.

26.) REVIEW COMPILATION FOR ALL LIBERTARIAN BOOKS: It could be started with extracts from literature lists and magazine reviews. Alternative media would have space for many different reviews by different people of the same book. Writers and publishers might provide such a service as a permanent advertising service for what they have to offer. As it is, one comes across many titles of great interest to oneself, if at all then all too often only by chance. A start might be made with short reviews of all libertarian SF. A few years ago a handbook came out of ideas in SF. I am still searching for a copy of that title. All too many ideas that are offered in SF are flawed or long refuted already, but those with worthwhile freedom ideas in them should be listed and their ideas integrated in a libertarian ideas archive.

27.) VOLUNTARY TAXATION SCHEMES: Many different proposals of this kind have been made but they have not yet been pulled together in one anthology. All contributions of this kind are welcomed by LMP and would, most likely, be fiched soon.

28.) GRESHAM'S LAW: A survey of all the right and wrong views on Gresham's Law and its dependence upon Legal Tender. It would make a good theme for a dissertation or topic for a monography. I have collected much material on this but not yet pulled it all together, extracted, transcribed and edited it.

29.) PRO AND CON ON INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT: Even among anarchists and libertarians many popular errors and myths do still prevail on this subject. They should all be demolished and confronted with the relatively few correct or not yet refuted ones, and combined with a reformist to revolutionary programme for ending involuntary unemployment very fast and completely. Again, I have collected much material on this but much labour is needed still to shape it into a book.30.) PRO AND CON ON INFLATION: An avalanche of errors is to be refuted here, too, and a few basic truths on inflation and its relationship to the issue monopoly, the value standard monopoly and legal tender ought to be sufficiently established. Monetary despotism leads to inflation, monetary freedom only can prevent it. But this would need a book-length treatment to prove sufficiently. For every truth on the subject there are dozens of popular and even academic errors A historical table indicating Legal Tender as one of the preconditions should be provided. It could graphically demonstrate that monetary and lasting inflations require legal tender and an issue monopoly and exclusive value standard. Otherwise they cannot take place. Also, that monetary inflations should be distinguished from temporary price increases due to changes on the goods side.

31.) TAX FOUNDATION MONEY UNDER COMPULSORY AND UNDER VOLUNTARY TAXATION: There is still insufficient literature on this subject. They few works that deal with it are insufficiently known. To my knowledge only the German School for Monetary Freedom has dealt with this subject extensively but it has, apart from Rittershausen's survey of the relevant legislation, not yet led to a monography.

32.) A SURVEY OF THE DIVERSE AND RIGHT AND WRONG VIEWS ON THE "REAL BILLS DOCTRINE" AND ON THE VARIOUS FORMS OF THE "BANKING PRINCIPLE" AS OPPOSED TO THE "CURRENCY PRINCIPLE" - In economic literature the errors and confusions on this subject do still abound and long existing refutations of old errors are still widely ignored.

33.) AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPES OFFERING LIBERTARIAN AND OR ANARCHIST INFORMATION: While I am not opposed to such offers, I believe that whole books offered in this format would require all too many and bulky tapes, which leads again to a storage problem and high mailing costs, as well as to relatively high production costs. Nevertheless, I appreciate all such offers enough to want to see all of them listed together and would gladly reproduce such listings. In one the Californian Future of Freedom conferences, years ago, one room was supposedly set aside, with several video tape players in the middle and shelving all around filled with libertarian video tapes. That should at least have led to a combined listing of all the tapes offered then and there. I have never come across such a listing. But I have seen, just once, a telephone book sized list of general video tapes. I doubt that libertarian and anarchist ones were specially listed there. At anarchist conferences many anarchist movies were shown - but I have still to come across a list of anarchist films and videos, indicating where and at what prices they might be obtained. - This condition is all too chaotic for me. Some sensible common marketing effort seems to be required. Send me your lists for fiching. Add your comments! - I would also like to see extracts or re-enactments of the best parts of taped discussions and lectures. - Moreover, an attempt should be made to feed in these tapes into dictation programs and then to correct these dictations, so that transcriptions of them, on alternative media, fiche, disks, CD-ROMs, could be cheaply offered.

34.) COPYRIGHTS: The libertarian and the anarchist movements are still split on the question of copyrights. The whole subject might be worth dealing with in a book-length anthology. I would gladly microfiche such a manuscript. But I would rather see copyrighted and relatively expensive material gradually or as fast as possible competed out of existence by the same ideas advanced in not copyrighted texts, offered as cheaply as possible, in alternative media. I for one am glad if someone reproduces some of my own writings at his expense. The more the better! However, authorship ought to be recognized, when known. Furthermore, I would like to see a much wider public discussion of the several alternatives that have so far been proposed to improve the earnings opportunities for writers without them raising any legal monopoly or copyright claims. That, too, could form an interesting book. The use of all freedom opportunities would work much better, here, too, than any legal monopoly could. The same applies to patents, in my opinion. Let us have e.g. a world-wide olympic competition for best freedom writings and best freedom ideas. Brains before muscles! Freedom lovers could provide their own kind of Nobel Prize as well.35.) I do intend to reproduce the remainder of the writings, mainly letters, of ULRICH VON BECKERATH, 1882 - 1969, that have come into my possession, and to translate many items from this collection into English and to provide and alphabetical index to this collection. Since this is a major and time-consuming job, now possibly facilitated through scanning and dictation options, I have long postponed this job. I do know of no other libertarian and anarchist writer whose books and correspondence is as rich in positive ideas and thoughts. Nevertheless, or because of thi8s, he has remained largely unknown.

36.) My two peace books, in PEACE PLANS 16-18 and 61-63, with the German version of 61-63 in PEACE PLANS 399-401, are to be digitized and then made available on disks and online. Likewise PEACE PLANS No. 20, on a free market for freedom ideas.

37.) DESERTION AND THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR AS SIGNIFICANT FACTORS TO END WARS: For many years I have collected material on spontaneous and induced desertion, as well as on the various options to deal with prisoners of war, following Ulrich von Beckerath's suggestions on this, which could turn the enemy regime's conscripts into neutrals or even allies. At least one book should be published on the subject. Few military men ever get this aspect of defence or liberation right. They continue to consider soldiers and officers as mere pawns who must stay with their colours and let themselves be used and abused.38.) DECISION ON WAR AND PEACE, ARMAMENT AND DISARMAMENT, THE FINANCING OF WARS AS WELL AS ON INTERNATIONAL TREATIES BY THE VICTIMS RATHER THAN THE VICTIMIZERS, THE PEOPLE RATHER THAN THE GOVERNMENTS. In this respect all democracies and republics are still despotic. The peace promoting alternatives ought to be thoroughly discussed in at least one monography. So far I have merely collected material towards such a book.39.) RITTERSHAUSEN, HEINRICH: Publication or re-publication of his economic and freedom writings. He was one of the German monetary freedom advocates and left an unfinished manuscript on monetary freedom. Copies of most of these drafts, in 5 versions, are in my possession. Unfortunately, the latest typed up version, in 80 pages, is missing but could probably be got from his papers, again, at the University of Cologne (Koeln).

40.) INDIVIDUAL VERSUS COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY: All throughout history a degree of morally and rationally indefensible "collective responsibility" has been thoughtlessly and emotionally applied and led to death, persecution and misery of hundreds of millions of people - and still does. Yet this principle is rarely mentioned at all, as one of the main factors, together with territorialism, in bringing about atrocities. There is room for dozens of books here. Each could help to prevent millions of further murders.

41.) PURCHASE OF ENTERPRISES BY THEIR EMPLOYEES ON TERMS: Most class warfare ideologies and actions could be undermined if this option were thoroughly studied and sensibly used. Yet there exist very few titles on this subject. All thoughts and proposals as well as practical calculations on this should be sufficiently published. Again, I have no more than a limited materials collection on this. That of Ulrich von Beckerath was much larger - and, if it still exists, may be still buried in a private library in Berlin.

42.) TYRANNICIDE: Some books were published on this, some were fiched by LMP but many more ought to be written on this, in a world still tortured to molested by such inhuman monsters as tyrants are.

43.) OPEN COOPERATIVES: This concept and practice, developed by P. Buchez, T. Hertzka and U.v.Beckerath has still an important message for our times on how to deal with natural monopolies in a libertarian way. Again, published writings on this are still all too scarce and ought to be supplemented.

44.) VOLUNTEER MILITIAS FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: The militia idea is still somewhat popular but still very much misunderstood and wrongly realized, even by fanatics and totalitarians. It ought to be fully written up by and for libertarians and anarchists. Decades ago I wrote down Beckerath's and my own notions on this in peace program published in PEACE PLANS No. 61-63. The subject deserves a much more thorough treatment still. That could be achieved if, on the Internet, its militia advocates were to engage in some thorough discussions, rather than going off half-cocked.45.) DRAFTS OF CODES OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, PRIVATE ONES: In PEACE PLANS 589 & 590 I provided a preliminary anthology of about 100 private, as opposed to governmental codes or drafts of this kind. Many more of them ought to be collected and all of them ought to be much more thoroughly discussed than was so far the case.

46.) DISARMAMENT WITH REGARD TO MASS MURDER AND ANTI-PEOPLE "WEAPONS", UNDERTAKEN BY RIGHTFULLY ARMED AND ORGANIZED PEOPLE THEMSELVES. - Disarmament efforts by governments are bound to fail, as are anti-crime measures undertaken by the Mafia. The libertarian alternatives should be explored and the better ones applied. Literature on this is almost non-existent so far, to my knowledge.

47.) A GOD DOES NOT EXIST AND HAS NOT EXISTED BUT COULD WE BUILD A HELPFUL AND POWERFUL ONE, AN ADVISOR AND HELPER IN ALL OUR PROBLEMS? That possibility was somewhat discussed in PEACE PLANS 20. It ought to be further studied, not just by studying the techniques of A.I. Can man be turned into something like a Superman or a God? At least the best of mankind's thoughts, observations and ideas should always be easily accessible to us, without a religious ritual and mythology. Then we could be almost like Supermen or Gods. Affordable and powerful alternative media have a great role to play on the road to this aim.48.) DVDs: Obviously, they are still more powerful than are CD-ROMs. However, their capacity is mainly intended useful for the reproduction of films and videos in all their glories, than for texts. Standardization still leaves much to be desired. For most enlightenment purposes through texts microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs are already powerful enough. More advanced media might come handy, though, once we reach the possibility of having portable large libraries. At this stage filling a single text-only CD-ROM with freedom texts coming "only" to 650 MBs is already hard enough to achieve and, apparently, has not yet been achieved by the freedom movement. I expect more from conscious collaboration towards this aim than from spontaneous happenings, developments and initiatives.

49.) INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: An anthology of all writings on this. Some such writings can be found in my ON PANARCHY series. Many more ought to be assembled and discussed of this practical application of individual sovereignty.50.) LAND REFORM PROPOSALS, TOLERANT ONES, PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE BETWEEN THEM: Most land reformers have their fanatic streaks and contribute to the bloodshed and unrest in the world. Rightful are only those land reforms which can be realized peacefully, voluntarily, without confiscations, oppression and bloodshed. These options ought to be discussed much more than they were so far in e.g. PEACE PLANS No. 5.51.) MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHING: Public libraries and private collectors have so far rather collected, stored and catalogued manuscripts and made them accessible to some researchers, rather than publishing them. With alternative media all of them could and should be published. Anyone should be allowed to sponsor the low costs of publication in alternative media for the manuscripts and papers that he is especially interested in. All writers could and should so self-publish all those of their works for which they cannot find a conventional publisher. They would not even have to form a cooperative to do so. They need only to cooperate to get all their publishing offers listed together.

52.) LIBERTARIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION: LMP favours the re-establishment of the old LPA but upon new principles and practices. I propose:

a. Members are to mention in every issue that they are members of this association and at least once a year should list the other members.

b. Members should not have to exchange all their issues on a one for one basis or exchange copies at all. For small publications that would largely be a waste of scarce and costly copies among people too busy with their own projects to fully appreciate them. Since different numbers of pages and qualities of reproduction are involved, these exchanges could also be very unequal in value. Instead, they should offer each other standardized vouchers that can be turned into purchasing power towards them. These they should be free to advertise and sell. Then less exchange copies would be required and largely wasted, remaining unread and unused, gathering dust somewhere. Moreover, members would have an incentive to advertise each other, through the sale of these exchanged vouchers.

c. Members should grant each other re-printing rights free of charge.

d. Members should arrange for at least the microfilming of all their back issues, if not their reproduction on CD-ROMs.

e. Members are to mention in every issue that their back issues are so available and those of many other freedom periodicals as well.

f. Members are to arrange for at least one single private or coop library, somewhere, to collect and display all their issues and to permit easy and cheap photocopying there.

g. Whenever members find it difficult to continue their publications in expensive prints on paper, then they should consider continuing them only in inexpensive alternative media. Thus they could be continued, indefinitely, even if, in an extreme case, their supporters had temporarily shrunk to a single person.

h. Members should encourage their readers to make use of their alternative media self-publishing options.

i Members should work towards a common index and abstract collection for all their articles, published affordably, in alternative media.

j. Members should rather arrange for the production and distribution of their back issues in alternative media themselves or through a common agency established by themselves than leave that job to a commercial agency, which would not have a sufficient interest to promote their titles, among thousands to ten-thousands of non-libertarian ones, and might over-charge for their services or lack of them.

If you know of other or better suggestions for a new LPA, please tell me.53. FREE MIGRATION: Presently it is being attacked even by many famous libertarians, as if it were an indissoluble part of the "welfare state" systems and as if migrants could not be free, self-responsible and self-supporting as a result. The few spokesmen for free migration ought to be brought together in one or several volumes, at least on microfiche. I give a high priority to all such contributions and like to tie them in to panarchistic thinking on this and other "problems".

54. ABORTION, PRO AND CON: Even the mass killings of wilful abortion of healthy unborn children is still controversial among libertarians. I would like the case to be fully stated, at least on microfiche. Too many contributions consider only fragments of all the facts and arguments that have accumulated.

For nearly 1,000 other suggestions and aims, wishes and proposals see PEACE PLANS No. 20. I would like to hear of your own, the more the better. They could be combined in an initial edition of a LIBERTARIAN IDEAS ARCHIVE.

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