NEVER give up control of the military.

  • please_dont [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    During the Cuban revolution and shortly afterwards they killed or exiled like 98% of people that had positions of the Batista state or supported it or benifited from it and didnt defect, from the local to the highest level. I dont know how is that a counter example or how you reply to "we should purge reactionaries that would take action to harm us during and after the revolution" with "well thats how we got pol pot". Well yeah among a dozen other reasons i guess. But thats also how we got any project that survived more than a couple of years and was able to become stable anough and overcome the opposing forces domesticaly and worldwide to a big enough degree that it could afford the humanist apporach and turned away from any mass repression, like with Cuba

      • Edelgard [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        … They liberated the people Batista had imprisoned on death row, yes.

      • please_dont [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        What parts of during and shortly after the revolution and for those that didnt turn you didnt get.

        • Edelgard [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          LeftComs and desperately needing to believe you can lead the revolution from an armchair, name a more iconic duo.

        • cokedupchavez [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          i guess i have to conclude that you haven't really understood this beyond internalizing some quick catechisms. this is a cuban perspective on revolutionary violence:

          https://www.jstor.org/stable/2633612?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents