ABOUT

Description

Militie Zonder Grenzen is a secular public militia comprised of independent branches.

Mission

Members are committed to defending the weak.

Philosophy

If we want to live in freedom we must protect the right of others to do so, in keeping with the principle of ‘equal liberty’ that underpins modernity. Our freedom is anchored in accepting responsibility for others, as we can have no moral claim to liberty if we neglect the liberties of our fellow human beings. United we stand, divided we fall.

Politics

Humans are social beings who naturally seek a democratic consensus that protects their shared interests. There can be no better expression of the social democratic impulse than helping end the exploitation, abuse and neglect of one human being by another; which can only be fully realized by liberating people from their alienation.

History

MZG was founded by Richard Lutz in 2018 after reflecting on The Motorcycle Diaries, in which Ernesto Guevara expressed his solidarity with the exploited peasants he met while travelling through South America with Alberto Granado, the crimes committed by governments gone bad – from the gas chambers at Auschwitz to the killing fields of Cambodia, Rwanda and Syria – and the courage of people like Tuvia Bielski who took up arms in defense of the weak.

Dedication

Our organization is dedicated to Tuvia Bielski, who led a Jewish militia group which fought the Nazi invaders and their collaborators in Poland during the Second World War and rescued Jews from extermination. The essence of his moral achievement is that he undertook both resistance and rescue but favored the latter.

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