Revolution Of The Mind

i talk about revolution, uprising, and support a free society and communal forms of economy. in my opinion, this is correct. but there is also another a thing. yes, the state, the nation, the capital, should be fought. but, also, in fact, there is no state. no nation. no capital. these are just ideas, merely existing in the imagination of people. you might say, well, of course there are states, usa, germany, france, there are governments, laws. yes, these things, more or less, exist. but these are not what people think when they say "state". they don't fit to the ideas they represent.
just open your favorite newspaper, or in our digital age, your favorite newspage. read the stories. for example: the law is part of the government, of the state. but if you read the newsstories, you will find that not only the gangsters and outsiders break the law regularly, but also common people, also the upper class - and also the politicians themselves. the law, as the idea it is put forward, doesn't exist. has never existed. sure, there is police, and there are laws that are written on paper, but these are far away from the ideal of law that is put forward. you could say this about almost any other aspect of government. the goverment is supposed to support the social good; does it do this on a larger scale? the goverment has an army to defend the nation; is it used this way (and not to attack other nations for reasons such as power and greed)? so, yes, there is a thing called "the state". but, it is far different from the idea of the state that people have in their head.
there is no government and no state in the real, 'philosophical', coherent idea of these words. similiar there are no markets, no nations, no economics.
capitalist and goverment institutions are upheld because a lot of people profiteer from these. but these people, businessman and politicians, do not even believe in these things themselves or follow "the rules". they are often the most corrupt of all.
but also in a negative sense states do not exist. there is no body of people that would coherently defend the revolt class against revolt. not in a decisive, true way at least. i'm sure if revolution happens most of the politicans, policemen, supporters would scatter in panic, and try to flee or run over to the other side.
because the state is just an idea.
it runs deeper than that; it takes longer to explain; as usual. but be sure, the state and hierarchy is just a thought in your head.
poor revolutionaries of the past, waiting, cumulating their power for a final attack on the hierarchy that never comes, while all they had had to do was to get the idea of "state" and "hierarchy" out of their head, to be able to be free, to attain real freedom.
if we want revolution, the important and main task is to free the minds of people, so that they are able to get these ideas that repress them out of their head; to abandon the ideas of a goverment, a state, of capitalism.
this by no means does make obselete the need for tangible activism too. riots, revolts, uprisings are necessary too, as are local and international organisation. but these have to be entwined in the task to give people the chance to free their minds too.
in the end, both things strengthen each other.