https://twitter.com/Mateba_6/status/1541449829683011586
From the book Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917)
https://twitter.com/Mateba_6/status/1541449829683011586
From the book Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917)
Agreed in that the revolution can and should be protected at all costs. I’m not squeamish about the violence necessary to carry out and prosecute a revolutionary political project. My disagreement here is about the specific strategy of relying on bourgeois state violence to bolster your own power base. This power can only work in your favor when your goals line up with theirs otherwise they won’t act. Masters tools and dismantling a house yada yada yada
I see what you are saying. My disagreement then boils down to: if you can make use of it….why not? A shoe isn’t a hammer, but if it gets the job done and a hammer isn’t around. Economics 101 brain: substituting goods and all that. Obviously a communist paramilitary death squad is good and preferable, but lacking that finding a way to get somebody else to remove the problem is necessary.
Depends on who exactly is doing the enforcement. If some cop sees "patriotic socialist" and doesn't understand that that means "Nazi", they might just fucking go for it.
And that would be pretty fucking hilarious