The points you bring up about collective bargaining and owning means of production help me see a lot of the difference. I hadn’t thought about something like social fascism existing.

I don’t think there’s anything good about what the military does, but it’s hard for me to not consider military people to be workers. If anything, I’d consider them more like class traitors akin to police. I’m talking about people lower down the chain, obviously Generals, people in leadership positions, etc are PMC or worse.