:rage-cry:

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    I do sometimes wonder about the difference between a working class armed/not surrendering arms and a working class that has consumptive armament habits.

    Marx was specifically talking about not surrendering arms. Which is what you'd be told to do when a war ended or you lost a battle (literally line up and drop your weapons in a pile).

    Is elimination of a commodified gun market the same as surrendering arms?

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Guns only have power when they're part of an organized, principled resistance/revolutionary army that's prepared to take on the mantle of state. Otherwise they're just another luxury commodity.

        • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Guns have power when organized into a semi-competent militia as well. A small but organized group with open carry rifles is intimidating to cops in a good way.

          It is also the start of a community defense group in case reactionaries get the idea to act like brownshirts.

          You also simply aren't going to get a principled revolutionary army directly, it will be built in peace times from groups like the above or from a civil war.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Exactly, almost an successful revolutions occurred during or right after war. Revolutionary defeatism can spread through a national guard or military pretty quick once they start dying and aren't even getting paid.

            Military coup works too, anything that leverages radicalized workers in a state organized armed body.