Four Winds Guide to Revolution — Featured resource on Unlearning Capitalism
Four Winds Guide to Revolution
This plan lays out The Four Winds Approach—a step‑by‑step method to building a solid network of sovereign communities in every neighborhood.
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The Four Winds Approach
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“Carving out a commune in the central city will involve claiming certain rights as our own - out front. Rights that have not been respected to now. Property rights.
It will involve building a political, social and economic infrastructure, capable of filling the vacuum that has been left by the establishment ruling class and pushing the occupying forces of the enemy culture from our midst.
The implementation of this new social, political and economic program will feed and comfort all the people on at least a subsistence level, and force the “owners” of the enemy bourgeois culture either to tie their whole fortunes to the communes and the people, or to leave the land, the tools, and the market behind.”
- George Jackson, “Blood in My Eye”
The Charter
First Priority: Protecting Our Children and Our Vulnerable from a Depraved and Predatory Ruling Class
Our first priority is ensuring the wellbeing of those we love and protecting our children from a depraved and predatory ruling class, which includes the entire political, state, federal, corporate, and institutional apparatus of powerful elites who have signaled their malicious intent.
How do we do that?
In the face of an increasingly powerful and sadistic ruling class in the United States—comprised of soulless oligarchs with the overt intention of monopolizing all resources, businesses, and world economies, while enslaving the population into a dystopian prison-planet—people are crying out for revolution. Yet there has been no tangible, practical solution.
This roadmap and guidebook is designed to change that. It will be distributed across the United States and provide every American with instructions on how to build robust micro-communities, starting with groups of four houses or residences called Sovereign Communities.
Survival Programs - A robust system of sustainment similar to Mutual Aid developed by the Black Panthers.
What are survival councils and survival programs? The Black Panther Panthers launched the foundation for systems to help the most vulnerable among the population that were co-opted by government. These systems were built by hard working volunteers and were operated under the philosophy of "survival pending revolution". Meaning - these programs were designed to help sustain the people until a hard revolution is completed and society operates to serve every human being without the need to be in survival mode. Today, similar systems are termed as mutual aid and have helped sustained communities in the most dire moments of crisis.
When you see or hear the term "survival program" in this guide, think mutual aid but with a robust infrastructure that connects multiple neighborhoods in a supply chain that's protected from government and corporate interference or dependence.
Each Sovereign Community forms a Survival Council, which determines what each residence is lacking and works collaboratively to fulfill one another’s needs. Every residence must maintain a one-year supply of emergency food and water, along with sustainable systems to grow their own food and collect their own water. The Sovereign Community will establish a Community Treasury, contributed to by each residence, for large-scale purchases or hardship relief—decided through a democratic vote.
They will also create a bartering or trade system and collectivize where necessary to break dependence on the compromised government-corporate supply chains that will likely be used as tools of control. A streamlined communication system will be developed for each Sovereign Community, including a code language unique to that community.
The community will also implement a self-defense mechanism, ensuring each residence is armed and ready to respond to calls for backup or survival programs in emergencies.
Next, Sovereign Communities will link with nearby communities to form a Sovereign Neighborhood.
This larger body will collectivize and establish a dynamic, adaptable self-defense and sustainment system, with combat veterans serving as advisors. Residences that harbor tension or animosity toward each other can form or join separate Sovereign Communities to avoid internal friction.
Each Sovereign Neighborhood will call upon able-bodied, combat-capable volunteers to serve in a self-defense corps. Those unable to fight may serve as support personnel. If necessary, these volunteers can be compensated using funds from the neighborhood treasury, which residents contribute to voluntarily. Each neighborhood defense corps can conduct regular intelligence meetings with nearby neighborhoods to establish a broader defensive support network.
Sovereign Neighborhoods will then form a national network—preferably with communities of varying racial and demographic makeups—to foster a spirit of cross-cultural cooperation, completely independent of the ruling class and capable of organizing for independence in a sustainable way.
Each neighborhood will send ambassadors to meet regularly with representatives from other Sovereign Neighborhoods of different cultural or racial backgrounds. These gatherings will build lines of communication, cooperation, and survival programs. They will also prioritize establishing relationships with local Native American tribes, specifically outside the influence of corrupt tribal councils that cooperate with federal authorities.
Each Sovereign Neighborhood will build an internal trade or survival program network, with listings posted on secure community boards. Monthly meetings will be held with representatives from each Sovereign Community to discuss organizational matters, needs, developments, and plans. These reps will then relay information back to their respective communities.
Sovereign Neighborhoods will also organize to provide free services via skilled volunteers or treasury-funded positions—services such as child care, medical exams, vehicle maintenance, self-defense training, and mental health counseling.
A sustainable food system is essential.
Each neighborhood will develop a community garden or support each residence in growing their own food using methods like underground, above-ground, or hydroponic gardening. Sovereign Neighborhoods must also develop low-tech methods for thriving independently of advanced technologies or fragile industrial systems. The ability to fabricate, machine, and produce essential supplies locally is key in the event that national infrastructure collapses. Just like our ancestors used to live.
But we, as the people, cannot strive only for the security and prosperity of ourselves and our neighbors who are capable of contributing to one another, unless we also acknowledge that there are those suffering—whether physically or mentally—to such a degree that they are unable to contribute anything at all. Are these downtrodden human beings any less our neighbors? No. In fact, they are the very neighbors to whom we must commit the most effort and compassion.
Therefore, it must be a priority that, while we are still capable of forming thriving communities, we take care of the most vulnerable among us. Mathematically speaking, if each Sovereign Community were to raise just one person out of extreme poverty, and Sovereign Communities began springing up across the nation, we could collectively lift every person struggling with homelessness out of destitution. Then, and only then, could we truly say that we left no one behind as we built this massive revolution against the elites who made such poverty possible.
All of this will be conducted entirely outside the authority of federal, state, city, or corporate governance.
Each neighborhood will establish an underground railroad system to protect and transport vulnerable residents and volunteers who may be targeted by government authorities.
The end goal is to create a parallel society and economy, free from elite control, which gradually starves the ruling class of their power and influence over the population. When their hard power dissolves, we can build a new world—one that frees humanity from slavery, fear, and poverty, and realigns human society with nature and sustainability. A future for our children marked by health, safety, and above all: freedom.
Not just freedom from physical slavery, but freedom for personal growth. Freedom to love and worship. Freedom to be healthy. Freedom from mental oppression. Freedom to travel. Freedom from tyrants. Freedom from discrimination. Freedom to live in justice.
The good news is: the ruling class is small in number compared to us. They have hoarded wealth, technology, and means of production that rightfully belong to the people. Once these resources are reclaimed and liberated, the illusion of scarcity—used to divide us and pit us against each other—will vanish. With no monopolies over resources, we will no longer need to compete in a toxic, desperate struggle for survival.