Setsuna.

I recall parts of the conversation. But you'll have to be more specific with your questions. Am I to presume you meant the reforms I attempted many years ago, or the beliefs I've espoused? I can go into either.

Forever in solidarity.

Very well.

About a decade and a half ago, though it feels like a lifetime by now, I had managed to ascend from the ranks from the Commandos to attain a degree of political clout. With the backing of a few of the older clans, I was able to claim the mantle of "shogun" among a bunch of bickering feudal pretenders. However, I saw this elaborate farce and knew that I needed to take steps to end it. I attempted to liberalize the old guard, trying to get them to see that Kusari needed something more than a return to tradition under our guidance. I tried to get them adopt ideas from other Houses, economic and social justice, democratic reform, an abandoning of old titles of nobility and hierarchy... but they would not have it, and turned on me as I tried to make them see reason. No matter my efforts, they would not simply let go of their petty little fiefs.

Circumstances led to exile. In exile, I partook in rituals and acts mandated by our warrior culture that led me to atrocity. Things I could never forgive myself for. It led me to fly beneath the banners of other revolutionaries, learning from them and their plights. It gave flight to my efforts to defend the GMG, and ironically Kusari, from the encroachment of Rheinland on the Sigmas. I learned of the struggles of the Bundschuh, of the Order, the Maquis, the Mollys, even the Zoners. There was even a collective of anarchists I met and learned from. When the time was right, however, I returned home with what I learned, and created a new movement.

What I learned from this journey is not so easily put into words. But I can say that I learned of the universality of our struggle. I learned that the capitalist system, dominated by the owning class and their corporations by which the state is a mere extension, is the cause of many of our issues. I learned of what true democracy could be, with a society that abolishes notions of class or bigotry or exploitation. I learned why so many revolutions fail, why so many fights seem to win the war but lose the peace. And I learned that the true nature and scale of our war extended far beyond a battlefield of armed clashes. It is a war that has raged since the dawn of mankind, of the fire for change and freedom from oppression, and billows in the soul of every person struggling beneath the boot of an oppressor. And that until every last chain is broken, we will be ever bound to the yoke of men who dream themselves our masters.

I believe, comrade, in the world yet to be made manifest, yet growing in our hearts with every passing minute. A world without class, without money, without states, without bigotry, and without chains. And I believe this world can be achieved through the grounded application of the socialist program, founded in dialectical materialism and empirical observation, to create the material conditions for a revolution led by the working class. It's not idealism. It's science.

Forever in solidarity.