We don’t need new men. We don’t need new women. We don’t need new forms. We need to stop letting the system influence us to the point of believing it and accepting that it limits us. Power isn’t sustained by force alone. It’s sustained by deciding which ideas seem normal, which values we consider desirable and which limits we take as unquestionable. When a society accepts a given order as natural and inevitable, it stops seeing it as a historical construction that could be different. This is how inequality gets normalized, power gets legitimized and certain social relations simply come to work that way. This is where cultural hegemony operates: it doesn’t need to force us to obey if it manages to get us to interpret the world through the same frameworks that sustain the system.

That’s why any deep transformation begins before political action. It begins by questioning the ideas we take for granted and developing the capacity to imagine alternatives. This doesn’t mean material conditions are irrelevant. On the contrary, they can generate conflict, but conflict doesn’t produce transformation if people can’t conceive of another possible order. A political revolution requires a revolution in our understanding of reality. Changing institutions without changing the ideas that sustain them can simply produce a new version of the same system. The first territory that any form of power contests is people’s minds.