The United States will not be reformed into justice. Built on stolen land, genocide, enslavement, and capitalist extraction, the U.S. is not broken—it is functioning exactly as designed. For those of us seeking liberation, the only path forward is revolution. But in the belly of empire, revolution will not unfold overnight. It will not come through politicians, parties, or sanitized reforms. What we need is a long-term socialist revolution—a deliberate, coordinated dismantling of capitalism, white supremacy, colonial domination, and ecological destruction.

This kind of revolution is not a fantasy. It is already in motion—quietly, defiantly, from below. It emerges in resistance camps, union halls, squats, street kitchens, and occupied lands. It lives in the refusal to cooperate with the system and the determination to build something else entirely.

I. Revolution Is Not the Vote: Electoral Politics as Containment

We must be clear: electoral politics is not our path to freedom. In the U.S., elections serve to legitimize a violent, settler-capitalist state. The system offers only controlled opposition, meaningless representation, and the constant co-optation of grassroots energy.

Voting doesn’t redistribute land. It doesn’t decolonize. It doesn’t abolish prisons. It doesn’t challenge the profit system. In fact, electoral politics absorbs revolutionary momentum and redirects it into bureaucratic dead ends. Every wave of popular energy is smothered in proceduralism, token victories, and elite compromise.

Revolutionaries must treat electoral politics not as a strategy but as a barrier—a trap that convinces people change will come if we just choose better managers for empire.

The work is elsewhere. It’s in the streets. It’s on the land. It’s in the struggle.

II. Dual Power: The Parallel Society We Must Build

Revolution means withdrawing our consent—social, economic, cultural—from a system designed to exploit and kill us. It means creating dual power: institutions that meet people’s needs while actively confronting the legitimacy of the state and capital.

We are not interested in band-aid reforms. We are interested in building the world that will replace this one.

Essential elements of dual power:

Tenant and unhoused encampments that resist eviction and privatization Free clinics and street medics that reject healthcare-for-profit Food sovereignty projects that cut out industrial supply chains Worker self-management and wildcat strikes that disrupt production Self-defense networks and copwatch teams that resist policing People’s assemblies and popular councils that prefigure direct democracy

These are not charity or reform. They are weapons. They are the prototype of post-capitalist life. The goal is not to join the system, but to replace it.

III. Self-Determination, Land Back, and the Right to Secede

There is no future for socialism in the United States without a reckoning with its colonial foundations. The U.S. is not simply an unequal country—it is a settler-colonial project built on land theft, Indigenous genocide, racial capitalism, and the subjugation of entire peoples. Any revolutionary transformation that does not center land return, Black, Indigenous, and Chicano self-determination, and the right to break away from empire will only reproduce oppression in new forms.

Land Back Is Non-Negotiable

The Land Back movement is not a symbolic gesture. It is a demand for the material return of territories stolen by the U.S. government, corporations, and settlers. It includes sacred sites, forests, watersheds, and rural and urban spaces that have been privatized, militarized, and polluted.

Land Back means:

Restoration of Indigenous governance and jurisdiction Immediate repatriation of stolen lands and public lands End of extractive industries and border regimes on Indigenous territories Support for Indigenous-led ecological stewardship, food systems, and education

This is not a favor—it is a precondition for liberation.

Socialists must stand behind the demand that Indigenous nations govern themselves fully, on their own terms, without colonial interference or federal constraint.

Black Autonomy and Self-Government: More Than Freedom, Liberation

Black liberation is not a reformist project. It is a revolutionary demand for self-determination that dismantles the entire system of white supremacy, racial capitalism, and state terror.

For over 400 years, Black people in what is now the United States have endured genocide, slavery, segregation, police terror, and systemic dispossession. The wealth of this nation was built on Black labor extracted through brutality. The state continues to function as an instrument of racial control: mass incarceration, police killings, economic exclusion, health disparities, and the destruction of Black communities.

Demands and Visions for Black Liberation

Collective Ownership of Land and Resources Black communities must have sovereignty over land—urban and rural—and resources to sustain themselves without capitalist extraction or state interference. This means land reparations that allow for community farming, housing cooperatives, and the building of self-sustaining infrastructures. End to Police and Carceral Systems The abolition of police and prisons is not only necessary but non-negotiable. Black self-defense networks and community-led safety initiatives must replace racist, violent policing regimes. Reparations and Infrastructure Investment Reparations are a material, structural demand—not a charity. They mean massive investments in Black neighborhoods: schools, health clinics, housing, public transit, green spaces, and cultural institutions designed by and for the people who live there. Political Sovereignty and Autonomy Black liberation requires political autonomy—a system where Black communities make decisions over governance, education, justice, and economics, free from white supremacist interference. This means the creation of autonomous zones and institutions outside state control. Abolition of Capitalist Exploitation Black liberation is tied to the abolition of capitalism itself. It requires worker control over production, the end of exploitative labor, and the building of a new economic system centered on care, solidarity, and sustainability. Cultural Revolution and Healing The psychological and spiritual wounds inflicted by centuries of oppression require a revolution in culture and community care. Black radical culture—art, music, spirituality, storytelling—is a weapon of resistance and a blueprint for a future free from trauma and erasure.

Black Self-Determination Is Revolution

The revolutionary project cannot succeed without Black liberation at its core. Black communities hold a vital historical and political position in the struggle to overthrow settler colonialism and capitalism.

Self-determination means not only fighting for rights within the system but building new, independent institutions and governance structures outside it. It means defending liberated zones from state violence and economic sabotage. It means creating alternative systems of education, healthcare, and justice based on mutual aid and collective care.

The Right to Secede and Build Autonomous Black Territories

The United States is built on the denial of Black sovereignty. The demand for secession and autonomous self-governance is not separatism for its own sake, but a necessary step toward liberation.

Black communities must have the right to withdraw from U.S. jurisdiction and build their own political and economic systems. This may include autonomous zones, Black land trusts, and alliances with Indigenous nations and other oppressed peoples to create new federations outside the empire.

Chicano Liberation and the Reclamation of Aztlán

The U.S.–Mexico border is not a natural division—it is a colonial wound, imposed by war and conquest. Chicano and Mexicano communities in the Southwest are not immigrants—they are the descendants of Indigenous and mestizo peoples whose lands were stolen in the U.S. war of expansion. The revolutionary movement must recognize the Chicano struggle as a national liberation movement in its own right.

Chicano self-determination includes:

Recognition of Aztlán—the ancestral homeland encompassing parts of the U.S. Southwest Autonomy over land, language, schools, and culture Abolition of borders and ICE Community defense against state and cartel violence Solidarity with Indigenous nations and campesino movements across the continent

Liberation means tearing down the border wall—physically, ideologically, and economically—and restoring the dignity and sovereignty of the people it has divided and criminalized. For Chicano revolutionaries, this may include the right to secede from the U.S. settler state and build a new, cooperative, liberated Aztlán.

IV. The Revolutionary Fronts of Today

Labor as Disruption, Not Negotiation

A revolutionary labor movement must refuse collaboration with capital. This means rejecting class peace, legalistic unionism, and corporate partnership. Labor organizing must become unmanageable—through sabotage, occupation, and autonomous worker control.

Amazon warehouses, logistics hubs, and fast food franchises are frontline battlefields. Workers are already fighting—many outside traditional union structures. The next step is not integration—it is insurrection.

Climate Resistance as Anti-Capitalist Action

Climate change is not a technical problem—it’s a direct result of capitalism’s need for endless growth. The ecological crisis will not be solved by greenwashed corporations or state policy.

Revolution means:

Shutting down extraction at the source Blocking pipelines, ports, and refineries Restoring Indigenous ecological knowledge Building autonomous food and water systems Ending the commodification of the earth

Climate justice is class war. There is no green capitalism. There is no eco-state.

V. Toward a Revolutionary Culture

We must prepare not only materially but spiritually. Revolutionary transformation requires a new kind of political consciousness—rooted in history, solidarity, and defiance.

This means:

Dismantling settler myths and capitalist ideology Creating revolutionary art, music, media, and education Practicing collective care, trauma healing, and anti-carceral accountability Building political homes that last beyond any moment of crisis

A revolutionary culture is not a scene. It’s not an identity. It’s a commitment to fight, to build, and to never go back.

Conclusion: The Time to Build is Now

We are not waiting for the perfect storm. We are not waiting for permission. We are already building the world beyond capitalism—on stolen land, in impossible conditions, under constant threat.

But we are not alone.

The long-term socialist revolution is not a dream—it is a process already underway. Every eviction blocked, every cop confronted, every acre liberated, every comrade cared for, brings us closer. The work is long. The stakes are everything. But the future is ours to take, if we fight for it—together, uncompromising, and unafraid.

No more managers of empire. No more votes for our oppressors. No more waiting. The revolution is now.