1. Philosophy – Your foundational ideology should be coherent and correspond to political reality; these are contradictory aims. Yet the dialectical process between these two requirements is what produces your reason for acting, your reason for being. Acting without it leaves you to the mercy of “some defunct economist“.
2. Education – This is not just the propagation of your ideology to others. It is the application of it to the particular backgrounds and historical circumstances of your target audience. Communication is a task in itself, yet the act of it also affects the thing being communicated.
3. Economy – You cannot change the world if you are scraping by. To effect change, your community of ideology must be economically vibrant. It must not only get by, but it must have a surplus of resources, time, and energy. It must also do so in a way that retains independence from the very power structure it is attempting to subvert.
4. Power – A self-sufficient and well-organized group is unstoppable, regardless of numbers. The challenge for a group propounding liberty is overcoming the history of such groups creating a tyranny, often worse than the one they replaced. For the old revolutionaries, the end justifies the means, for the end is the revolution, and it justifies all. The new revolutionaries must overturn the cycle between tyranny and revolution; therefore, the means can only be justified by their ideological ethics; therefore, the means is the revolution; therefore, the means is the end.
