The After Empire Declaration
Revolution is necessary, possible, and desirable.
The end of history was a lie.
The end of history trained us to abandon our arms and fetishize our own powerlessness.
The end of history says the people are irrelevant.
The masses have not gone quietly into the end of history. We rebel.
A new world is coming, but what form it takes remains undetermined. We must not choose between liberalism or fascism, as liberalism is ultimately fascism’s enabler and not its opponent. We must raise a new banner.
It is right to forge a radical new path for humanity.
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This is not a stick up, it’s a revolution.
“From each according to their ability, to each according to their need,” this is our call, the ethical horizon of a new era. Our future is defined by what we make, not what we take.
We live in a common, shared reality. We are not simply aggrieved victims, recognizable only in our oppression. The essence of oppression is not violence, but limited capacity. Liberation is not an excavation, it’s a new becoming. Social construction is real. Ideas are as material as any welfare program. We must transform resistance into construction.
We fight for Socialism!
Socialism is not an entitlement scheme.
Socialism is a means, not an end; it is what we do, not what is done to us.
Socialism is the people in power.
For far too long the people have experienced socialism as a containing force managed by brokers, sellouts, and police agents. The most powerful communist party in the world has for decades served as a guarantor of capitalism globally.
Socialism cannot be yielded to its captors.
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Peace to the streets, war on the palaces!
Enough with the slums, special economic zones, gated communities, and patriarchal households.
Enough with the logic of work makes free and useless eaters.
We reject an open society which sells people across borders but never frees us.
All ghettos must burn. All fascists are traitors. All orthodoxy is a lie.
People are not the problem, we’re the solution.
Our demands are of ourselves and not our presumed rulers.
Our heroes are not dead. Calling all heroes.
Free the Land!
Free Love!
Free Socialism!
After Empire is a partisan think tank and cultural institute dedicated to resolving the big contradictions of our shared world and advancing social life beyond the exploitation, degradation, and exclusion fostered by imperialism. After Empire seeks to unite with all people who desire a liberated society.
