If Socialists seized power in the US, what to do on day 1?

  1. Abolish all armed forces and replace them with a revolutionary militia with a proletariat class composition and officers elected and recallable and paid an average wage. Mass defense of the revolution against counter-revolutionaries.

  2. Replace all democratic bodies with worker councils, all officials elected and recallable and paid an average wage. Division of branches of government are abolished.

  3. Judicial apparatus is abolished and replaced by a new one in which all officials are elected, recallable, paid average wage. All legal fees are abolished.

  4. All drugs are legalized and all people convicted of drug possession or use are released. Others are reviewed and/or pardoned.

  5. All illegal immigrants are granted citizenship, boarder control is relaxed and refugee quotas increased, overtime, boarders would be abolished in favor of full freedom of movement.

  6. All means of production and land is centralized in the hands of the state.

  7. Education is made free for all, teachers and students collaborate (in different ways at different ages of course) to create curriculums and students. Education is well-rounded and students are given a great deal of control over their education and room to experiment and "find themselves". Education stops being the passive absorption of information.

  8. Planning system is constructed to plan production on a scientific, rational basis, and on the basis of bottom-up consultation with producers and consumers.

  9. Indigenous-directed process of decolonization is begun.

  10. Decommodification of life is begun.

  11. Development program is begun to develop and empower poorer communities.

  12. Mass forgival of debts of oppressed people and oppressed countries.

  13. Unemployment is eliminated and the working week is reduced to 30 hours. As communism approaches, work as it exists now is replaced by communist labor, which is voluntary, non-commodified, non-alienated, well-rounded and empowering.

  14. Foreign military bases are removed and international connections are established with revolutionary working class movements worldwide.

  15. counter-revolutionary political parties are abolished.

  16. Reproductive rights ensured and domestic labor is socialized. Gender and race as social constructs are abolished.

  17. Infrastructure improvements are conducted.

  18. Culture and science become far higher priorities then they currently are.

  19. Religious institutions are subjected to thorough seculurism.

  20. Mass public transportation system implemented.

  21. Withdrawal from the United Nations and other bourgeois and imperialist international organizations.

  22. Heavy progressive taxation and transition towards labor vouchers, which do not circulate and are not exchanged.

Given the implications of a revolution in America, all these could quite possibly be achieved within ten years.

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