Kant’s theory of citizenship replaces the French revolutionary triptych of liberty, equality and fraternity with freedom (Freiheit), equality (Gleichheit) and civil self-sufficiency (Selbständigkeit). The interpretative question is what the third attribute adds to the first two: what does self-sufficiency add to free consent by juridical equals? This article argues that Selbständigkeit adds the idea of interdependent independence: the independent possession and use of citizens’ interdependent rightful powers. Kant thinks of the modern state as an organism whose members are agents possessed of rightful (productive) powers, whose interdependent mode of exercise independently of unilateral permission matters for right. The empirical form of that ideal, according to Kant, is a republic of independent commodity producers. I will show that this reading of Selbständigkeit can consistently explain Kant’s disenfranchisement of women, wage labourers and landless farmers; that it offers a robust alternative to influential republican, libertarian and proprietarian interpretations of the Kantian state; and that it can buttress an original account of community as productive interdependence.

康德的公民权理论用自由（Freiheit）、平等（Gleichheit）和公民自给自足（Selbständigkeit）取代了法国革命的自由、平等和博爱三联。解释性问题是第三个属性对前两个属性的补充：自给自足对司法平等的自由同意增加了什么？本文认为，Selbständigkeit增加了相互依存独立的概念：公民独立拥有和使用相互依存的合法权力。康德认为现代国家是一个有机体，其成员是拥有合法（生产）权力的代理人，其相互依存的行使方式独立于权利的单方面许可事项。根据康德的说法，这种理想的经验形式是独立商品生产者的共和国。我将证明，这种对Selbständigkeit的解读可以始终如一地解释康德剥夺妇女、雇佣劳动者和无地农民的权利；它为有影响力的共和主义、自由主义和私有制对康德国家的解释提供了强有力的替代方案；并且它可以支持将社区视为生产性相互依赖的原始描述。