• Awoo [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Maybe you can think "this isn't efficient" but anyone who thinks about it for a few minutes can see how it's more efficient than nobody taking or giving any orders at all.

    Doesn't have to be efficient, just has to be more efficient than the alternatives.

    If someone can come up with something more efficient I will immediately switch to it.

    • CatoPosting [comrade/them, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Maybe efficiency isn't everything. Maybe you could try to see how, having grown up under one hierarchical boot, and then working inside of another, they could feel that hierarchy will always be oppressive and therefore should be struggled against.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Efficiency is everything in a zero-sum war between capitalism and revolutionaries.

        You either do shit better than them or you lose. It's really as simple as that. The revolutionary forces need to become strong enough to overcome the defence forces of capitalism.

        There are two ways to this:

        1. Building a more efficient revolutionary army than the army of the state.
        2. The army of the state becoming so resource-stretched that it becomes weaker than the revolutionary army.

        Or most likely: A combination of the above.

        You can try and be completely disorganised and just hope that the state collapses so fucking hard that it can't even fight a leaderless revolution with no hierarchy. But seriously consider that that isn't going to be allowed to happen by foreign capitalists who WILL intervene when the moment of collapse occurs if things get that bad. More likely things wouldn't ever get that bad too, which is why you need the vanguard to begin with, to push things truly over the edge, to place a thumb on the scales.

        • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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          9 months ago

          I think the work you are looking for is effective. You really don’t understand military structure if you think they will be more efficient than your cells.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Efficiency is everything because if your system is less efficient you will be destroyed by the more efficient one

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            9 months ago

            The soviet union was less efficient in that it allowed compradors to take power and end it. It was a less efficient proletarian-dictatorship than the rival bourgeoise-dictatorship. Its principle mistake were structural mistakes allowing the liberals into power.

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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            9 months ago

            Yeah having all of their cities and a quarter of their population destroyed will do that.

            Under Stalin and Lenin it was extremely efficient, growing and developing the economy at extreme rates unseen in human history up that point until the German invasion of WW2. The destruction of WW2 and the Liberal-revisionist take-over of the post-war government after Stalin's death led to liberalization and stagnation right at the time where they needed to recover the most via command planned economy. Kruschev's social imperialism and revisionism led to the Sino-Soviet split.

            There was a failure there, a failure in purging out the social-imperialists and revisionists like Krushchev and his ilk.