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Radicalizing the Revolution...

The uprising begins and the revolutionaries seize power...Their first step is to disband the existing police force,  dismantle the military apparatus, overthrow the suffocating media web of existing propaganda, commence a new network of social communications, declare the previous governmental structure as defunct, welcome the people at large to the new conditions of radical anarchistic post-statehood, sponsor rallies in the public square, encourage dancing, singing and loud clapping, outlaw large corporations, monopolies, conglomerates, tech giants, Amazon, Google,  Apple, etc., redistribute existing accumulations of wealth among the millions of essential workers, reconstitute the existing means of production spontaneous and perhaps haphazardly under a separate set of umbrella categories (to be owned by everyone, to be administered by everyone, on a system of rotation, each according to their needs), declare all essential industries open to all, first come, first serve, demolish enclaves, gated communities, private estates, seize bank accounts and private holdings of everyone who is not in dire need, institute land reform, declare universal health care for all, levy taxes against the ruling elites, eliminate food deserts, outlaw racism, sexism, classism, lookism, homophobia, and reactionary thinking, open up the seat of government to the working class, form local councils and ministries of the people, punish hate speech, round up counter-revolutionary agitators, outlaw excessive consumption, litter, wastage, pollution, hoarding, punish snobbery and self-segregation, surveil the population in search of code speak and dog whistles, banish tribalism and large families, banish small communities and provincialism,  outlaw factions and sub-groupings, disallow useless debates and endless chattering about nothing,  stop the cult of celebrity, stop the cult of authority,  stop the worship of doctors, lawyers and engineers, stop the worship of beauty, shred the decadent art and fashion,  burn the false historical accounts, put librarians on notice,  eliminate private friendships, private clubs, private parties,  eliminate marriage and oppressive relationships, eliminate formal courtship and bourgeois dating services, liberate women from the company of men,  liberate men from their oppressive selves,  requisition men to the rescue of cats, dogs, dolphins and test rabbits, liberate older from younger, liberate children from parents and the pretense of loving caretakers,  liberate the infirm from their overseers, liberate black from white, hispanic from white, asian from white, middle eastern from white, multi-racial from white, white from white, visit radical immersive endless reeducation upon the recalcitrant Euro caucasoid nay-sayers who deny, deny, deny the historical tsunami that their collective DNA consciously or unconsciously helped to create...eliminate the stress that comes from trying to hold in place the perfection of the first moments of liberation, absolutely no faltering, no nervous reactions, no room for flaws of any kind...step to it, folks, put a happy face on it, no time to spare, no melancholy face allowed!

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