It is really time for us to wake up out of our comfort zones and to think and act radically:
a) Abolish the electoral system of representation and replace it with a system of direct participation in self and communal governance by every citizen.
b) Abolish private property, and replace it with a system of rights allocation recognizing the rights of each person to education, health, housing, food, water.
c) Abolish money as a means of exchange and introduce a system of needs production and distribution of use-values thereby abolishing commodities replacing them with common goods/needs predicated on human rights.
d) Abolish banking. If you remove money there is no need for banking.
e) Socialise and communalise all housing, the bigger the house, the more people could share it. By abolishing private ownership of houses we will immediately address the problem of homelessness. Create street and block committees to manage housing.
f) Socialise all means of production under the communal control of workers.
g) Abolish wealth and therefore poverty as well as unemployment.
h) Break the working day in half allowing every person to work, and working only four hours with the rest of the day free to socialise, for academic and skills self advancement, for sport and recreation. Half the population works in the morning the other half in the afternoon.
i) Looking after the aged and educating children becomes a social and communal responsibility and the collective and individual right and responsibility of all.
j) Having abolished land as private property, land becomes part of the global commons, like water and air and the social responsibility of all. Agricultural land to be managed by agricultural workers.
k) Socialise the means of production and place it under the democratic participatory control of workers.
l) Open adult education institutions to all. In a revolutionary society we will transform our universities into multiversities. Currently our universities serve only one purpose which is to supply managers and supervisors for business and the private sector, a single largely economic purpose. In a revolutionary society we will asses what skills are needed to meet all the challenges faced by society and will be required for social, economic, cultural, recreational, educational and health development of society as a whole in which access to this development will be universal and free. This means that these institutions will serve a multitude of purposes aimed at developing not narrow expertise but polymath citizens able to apply themselves to a multitude of problems, challenges, opportunities and social and developmental needs – we will therefore no longer call these institutions universities, but multiversities.
Six hundred years ago capitalism did not exist, five thousand years ago feudalism did not exist. Ten thousand years ago we moved around as small bands of hunters and gatherers. Society is never static, and the present which is less than 600 years old and already in serious decay is in the process of disintegrating. Either you become a part of the future or you disintegrate with the past. Are you ready for a brave new world or are you a coward who tramples mud into clay in one place while you anxiously wring your hands and mumble excuses?
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