I’ll read the essay cited as soon as I’ll have time, in the meantime though you cannot convince me that a movement whose ideals are of liberation and freedom can be enforced by oppressing the masses using tanks and rifles. If you need those to fight your fight you’re not fighting on the side of the people, you’re fighting to keep power to yourself, easy as that
Socialist states don’t oppress the working classes but the capitalists, fascists, landlords, and imperialists. That’s who the tanks and rifles are for. It’s capitalist states that wield them against the working classes, like the US Empire and its European vassals.
I’ll read the essay cited as soon as I’ll have time, in the meantime though you cannot convince me that a movement whose ideals are of liberation and freedom can be enforced by oppressing the masses using tanks and rifles. If you need those to fight your fight you’re not fighting on the side of the people, you’re fighting to keep power to yourself, easy as that
Socialist states don’t oppress the working classes but the capitalists, fascists, landlords, and imperialists. That’s who the tanks and rifles are for. It’s capitalist states that wield them against the working classes, like the US Empire and its European vassals.