What is the purpose of this project?
To explore how a small nation like Liechtenstein could achieve dignity and sovereignty through solidarity, self-organization, and independence from imperialist powers. It is an attempt to think practically, not just abstractly, about freedom.
Is this utopian or realistic?
The project is grounded in material analysis. It draws from history — such as the Paris Commune and cooperative movements — to show that alternatives are possible. Imagination is necessary, but it is always linked to concrete conditions.
Why a Marxist-anarchist perspective?
Because Marxism provides tools for analyzing class, exploitation, and global capitalism, while anarchism rejects hierarchy and insists on freedom from domination. The two together prevent both naïve idealism and authoritarian "solutions."
How would defense work without an army or weapons industry?
Defense does not require mimicking larger states. Small nations can defend themselves through decentralized militias, civil resistance, and international solidarity. Militarization often makes small states pawns of larger powers, not freer. A strategy of people’s defense — based on participation, not standing armies — is more realistic.
How would Liechtenstein survive economically without banking secrecy?
By reorienting the economy around workers, cooperatives, and local production. Wealth built on foreign tax evasion is not sustainable. Food, housing, and energy security are more valuable than speculative finance. Small nations thrive when they serve their people, not outsiders.
What about political repression from larger powers?
Larger powers may attempt to pressure or isolate independent small states. History shows this: from the Paris Commune to Cuba. The answer is resilience — relying on local production, strong community ties, and building networks of solidarity with other oppressed peoples. Survival does not come from appeasing empires but from resisting them together.
Why focus on Liechtenstein? Isn’t it too small to matter?
Smallness is not a weakness — it is an advantage. With under 40,000 people, direct democracy and communal organization are possible. Liechtenstein can serve as an example to other small communities worldwide. Power is not measured only by size, but by the strength of solidarity.
Wouldn’t communal ownership destroy initiative?
No. Initiative is not the same as greed. People are most creative when their work serves themselves and their community, not absentee shareholders. Worker cooperatives, community land trusts, and mutual aid encourage responsibility and innovation without exploitation.
How would housing and land be handled?
Housing would be treated as a right, not a commodity. Land and buildings can be placed into community trusts, managed democratically to prevent speculation and ensure fair use. No one should profit from another’s need for shelter.
What role would education play?
Education must cultivate freedom and solidarity, not obedience to authority. Schools should be democratic, teaching critical thinking and cooperation. Knowledge belongs to everyone — not to markets, princes, or elites.
Is this only for the left?
The project is written from a Marxist-anarchist perspective, but its concerns — dignity, sovereignty, survival — belong to all people. Even those who do not share the ideology can see value in independence from exploitation.
What about religion, monarchy, and tradition?
Tradition should not be erased, but neither should it be a tool of domination. Monarchs and princes do not guarantee community — they guarantee hierarchy. Culture and faith can flourish freely only when people themselves are free.
How is this different from mainstream politics?
Mainstream politics accepts dependence, hierarchy, and markets as permanent. This project rejects those assumptions and asks how life could be organized differently. It is not about managing the status quo, but transforming it.
What about failure? What if it collapses?
Failure is possible. But failure is also possible in the current system — economies crash, alliances break, banks fail. At least a communal path gives people agency in their fate, rather than leaving survival in the hands of foreign powers.