Can We Stop Enslaving and Colonizing Ourselves?

Let’s ask you a question. It’s a hard one, and it might make you uncomfortable. But sit with it for a second.

If people’s ancestors were enslaved, colonized, or invaded by european christian colonial countries, why would we still use the same legal systems, the same government structures, religion, education system, and even the same languages that were used to oppress people ancestors?

Think about it.

Why would people keep the very tools designed for their subjugation?
 Does it mean we’ve become the new oppressors? Does it mean we’ve given up on building something of our own?

We have all heard the standard answers: “It’s a functioning system.” “People need stability.” “It’s pragmatic.”
But let’s talk about that. Let’s push past the surface. Because calling what was left behind a ‘functioning system’ is like calling a landmine a stepping stone, it ignores the landmine inherent and devastating purpose to destroy.

What the colonizers left behind wasn’t a helpful administrative gift. It was a perfected apparatus for perpetual subjugation. It was designed to keep running long after they packed up and left, ensuring their economic exploitation, social control, and cultural alienation would continue automatically. The physical master was gone, but he built a legal and bureaucratic robot to take his place. The system itself became the governor.

This wasn’t an accident; it was by design. This self-sustaining colonial engine was built with several key components:

1. The Laws of Property: The Legal Theft of a Continent
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The most devastating and enduring tool was the imposition of colonial christian property law. Colonial countries systematically dismantled complex, communal, and customary land equality systems, the bedrock of indigenous societies, and replaced them with concepts of private, titled property.
 This wasn’t just a legal adjustment; it was a weapon. It created a clean, “legal” framework for the continued seizure of land. After independence, this system didn’t vanish. It became the tool for new elites and foreign corporations to “legally” acquire (a.k.a. seize) community lands. The system kept working, flawlessly, to funnel wealth outward and disenfranchise the very people who had fought for freedom. It made colonization a business transaction, not a military operation.

2. The Centralized State: A Blueprint for Control
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The current borders of many post-colonial nations are arbitrary lines drawn in European capitals. To control these artificial states, colonizers built incredibly powerful, centralized, and hierarchical governments. This structure was not designed for democratic representation; it was designed for top-down command and control.
When new leaders took over, they didn’t inherit a democracy. They inherited a control panel built for dictatorship. They changed the driver, but the vehicle was still designed to run over its own people.

3. Language and Education: The Colonial Mindset as a Class System
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By making European languages the official language of power, the colonizers installed a permanent cultural filter. Mastery of the colonizer’s language became the key to wealth, and status.
This created a tiny elite, trained to think in the logic of the oppressor and to devalue their own indigenous knowledge. They became the managers of the colonial machine, beneficiaries of a system that kept their fellow citizens at a permanent disadvantage.

4. The Rule of Precedent: Letting the Oppressor Rule from the Grave
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In many legal systems, past judicial decisions set the law for the future. This meant that after independence, the rulings of colonial judges, the very men who had justified land theft and enforced brutal labor laws, now became the binding law of the new nation.
 The ghost of the colonizer is still making rulings from the grave. His prejudice is baked into the law.

So, back to our piercing question: Why keep it?
  The tragic answer is that many new countries, in a desperate quest for immediate stability, unknowingly kept the engine of their own oppression running. The promise of order overshadowed the need for equality.

But your skepticism is the most important part of this story. It asks the question that defines our present struggle:

When you adopt the system of your oppressor, even for pragmatic reasons, do you inevitably become a new continued version of oppressor?  The history of the last 500 years suggests that, the answer is yes. The system, by its very design, corrupts and co-opts.

This is why true liberation requires more than just political independence. It requires a deep and critical legal and mental decolonization. It requires an active process of decolonizing this inherited engine, questioning its assumptions, rewriting its laws, and centering indigenous knowledge and forms of justice. It means building something new that is based on the equality of all people.

We do not have to continue this oppressive system left behind by colonial countries. The goal cannot be to find a better driver for the colonial machine. The goal must be to decolonize it and build a new one based on true equality.

A important question to ask yourself is:

Would you want to live on an earth in which everyone is equal?

 Or do you want to continue living on a christian colonial capitalism system for earth that places people into an economical class system (upper class, middle class, lower class, working class, poverty or king?

If you would like to live on a earth that everyone is equal then lets decolonize and create a earth based on equality.

To achieve this, we must actively decolonize the pillars of our society:

Decolonize the economy: Money, like water and air, is a resource that belongs to everyone. It should be a tool for logical distribution, not a value system that defines human worth. We must build an economy where currency is equal for all, where it cannot be hoarded to generate interest and perpetuate inequality, and where the goal is the equitable meeting of human needs rather than endless accumulation.

Decolonize laws: The current colonial legal framework is designed to protect property and power. It must be replaced by a “Law of Equality” a justice system rooted in restorative practices, community healing, and the protection of human dignity and ecological balance for all.

Decolonize government: Kingdoms, democracies, dictatorships, and other top-down power structures must be transformed into bottom-up, community-led governance. Government should not be a distant career or a business, but a process shared by all community members. Imagine a system where representatives are randomly selected directly from the their community to ensure true local representation, and where every citizen has a direct vote on each new policies or change, moving beyond mere parliamentary procedure to people voting on direct legislation before becomes law.

PEOPLEIZE: People Helping People to Create A World Based on Equality for All People on Earth.
We believe in a world where all people are equal, not just in theory, but in practice. This means a world based on equality of all people, regardless of origin, creed, or circumstance. It is a world where community is our currency and mutual aid is our mandate; where people help one another to build societies that value cooperation over competition, and collective well-being over individual wealth.

This is a Decolonized World where self-determined communities reject hierarchy, dogma, and exploitation to grow in collective equity. It is a world where all people live in self-sustaining, independent communities that thrive from within, free from religious biases and decolonized in thought and action.