This book is an initiative of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekssvetski/?originalSubdomain=au">Aleks Svetski</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmoss/">Mark Moss</a> and as they state "is an answer, or perhaps antidote to the nihilism, despair, and chaos individuals are facing in the modern world." As you might imagine, this work is counter-inspired by the worldwide famous "Communist Manifesto" by Marx & Engels.Aleks and Mark conceive humans as individuals and as such should be treated and comprehended.

The UnCommunist Manifesto

"In an organic, capitalist society where the political-ruling class is unable to arbitrarily conjure money out of thin air for themselves, if you add more value, do more work, provide a better service, build a better product or make better choices in life, you will climb. If you consume more than you produce, if you are wasteful, if you make bad investment decisions, if you blow all your money on parties and alcohol, then guess what, you can't print anymore or tax others to pay for your losses. You will fall down the social ladder."

"Distribution can and will happen organically, and when competence is central and hard work accurately remunerated (fix the money, fix the world), wealth will follow to whoever deserves it.

Bitcoin is the most powerful, organic incarnation of capitalism that has emerged in the modern world. It is an apolitical money whose rules are equally applied to everyone.For the first time in human history, we have perfect, fixed, immutable money that bridges the gap between the physical and digital, tying bits to atoms and giving us the best of both worlds.Being a borderless, permissionless network that is open and free, any individual can own and control property developed, built on, or connected to the network.

Bitcoin

"A free market is a corollary of a free mind."

Social classes have been conceived as static and settled up by decree, which causes confrontation and systemic inequality. Examples of this are Feudal Hierarchy, Modern Cronyism and Communism.What they propose is a transformation and reorganization of society, not by decree, but by the natural, emergent force of competence and liberty.One of dynamic inequality, where classes continue to exist, but are permeable. Where the opportunity to rise up is available to all, and so too is everyone subject to the risk of failure and falling down the hierarchy.

Static vs Dynamic Classes

"Inequality is not a problem when you have social mobility."

The class or collectivist model values individuals as clones in a group, ignoring all nuance. Individuals identity should be defined from within, not from without.Self-identification goes hand by hand with the right of private property. In contrast to Marxist doctrine, they concieve preservation of private property as an essential piece for a Dynamic Classes system to work. We must understand private property as:<ul><li>Oneself, their thoughts and their mind.</li><li>The result of their production or accquisition via voluntary trade.</li></ul>

The Competent Individual

"In accordance with natural order, whilst we may have something to lose (risk), we also have a better future to gain (reward)."

<ul><li>The reintroduction, assertion and primacy of the family unit.</li><li>The abolition of government intervention into business and industry, and the establishment of competitive meritocracies in which competence, skill, talent and hard work are rewarded, and not group identities.</li><li>The abolition of the welfare state, its replacement with voluntary, private charity, and the responsibility of each able person to provide for their own needs, as well as ownership for their own outcomes.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A movement onto a common, organic, emergent monetary standard which cannot be managed, controlled, ruled or issued by any group, organization institution or nation.</li><li>The replacement of large scale nation states with a patchwork of city-states that are economically accountable and governed by local property owners with skin in the game.</li><li>The abolition of all public schooling and state indoctrination programs, and their replacement with private, diverse forms of education delivered by family and passionate, competent teachers, mentors and masters.</li></ul>

In order to return Sovereignty to the Individuals, the following measures may be applied:<ul><li>The absolute preservation of private property rights. For everyone, all the time.</li><li>The abolition of all taxation and its replacement with voluntary fee-for-service.</li><li>The right and responsibility to defend oneself in the preservation of life, liberty and private property.</li><li>The abolition of any and all Central Banks which use fiat money and credit expansion to enrich themselves at the expense of the population who uses it.</li></ul>

Return the Power to the Individual

"If an economy is a complex system made up of human interactions, capitalism is the word we give to its evolutionary process."

Capitalism is neither right nor left. It has nothing to do with politics.It is inherent in the evolutionary flow of any living species, which through the use of resources, time and energy, transform these into a good of higher order and value.Capitalism is decentralized and occurs based on the voluntary participation by the individual in a free market.Control is distributed, dominance revolves and quality spirals upward by virtue of competition.On the other hand, political hierarchy and authority are merely a function of decree, and therefore they always decay.

Capitalism: A New Axis

No other technological-social-economic-physics phenomenon exists or has existed with the potential to truly break the monopoly power of the collectivist state and move the locus of control of each individual back into their own hands.It is the ultimate tool of The Sovereign Individual, and with it there is finally a way to transcend politics and swing back to the natural, Capitalist end of the spectrum.<ul><li>Austrian Economics help us understand.</li><li>Free markets are how we operate.</li><li>Bitcoin is what makes it all possible.</li></ul>

"The collectivists openly declare that their ends may only be attained at your expense and the forcible confiscation of your property and independence. Competent individuals declare that their ends may only be attained at the expense of their own capital, effort and energy, in combination and voluntary cooperation with other competent, independent individuals."

In the UnCommunist Manifesto, Aleks Svetski and Mark Moss set out the problems of today and the solutions for tomorrow, with organic capitalism and individual sovereignty at the core of this new paradigm.

"We wrote The UnCommunist Manifesto hoping to see it used as an inspirational text in the struggle between Individual Sovereignty and Collective Coercion, so evident around us today. We emulated the format and length of the Communist Manifesto, but re-wrote it remind people to reach upward and become better versions of themselves, as opposed to classifying themselves into static groups and validating their desire to bring others down to their level."--Back cover.

ALEKS SVETSKI AND MARK MOSS