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We can’t let our rallying cries for change and our lists of demands sit as mere appeals to the very institutions that are oppressing us.

We must rally *each other* and make demands of *each other* for the building of *new* institutions that can actually challenge the status quo.
What does “JUSTICE FOR [INSERT NAME]” really look like?

Who decides what is “just,” and how?

What does it mean to be concerned with justice versus freedom?

Ultimately, how are we getting closer to these things by just appealing to a system that is inherently unjust and unfree?
We have to build new institutions that aren’t reproducing the economic and social relations that got us into this mess, but that are instead rooted in the logic of the world we want to see...

And we have to connect these institutions globally in order to build a parallel system.
If it’s not dealing with labor and the land, then it’s not “Left.”

If it’s not preparing you to move in self-determination without governmental initiative, then it’s not “revolutionary.”

If it’s not breaking from top-down, hierarchical organization, then it’s not “liberatory.”
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