Doesn't it really depend on whose values the military dictatorship is enforcing? I'm not saying that 48% is all communists or even mostly communists, but for us to get the world we want a military dictatorship is necessary for a time, is it not?
Soviet military was not apolitic, but it was subject to a civilian government, and when civilian government went counterrevolitionary, military tried to act in August 1991, but weakly and indecisively, which resulted in abject failure.
What's the game plan look like to get the british army to overthrow the state and then also institute socialism at least?
And why would you want any army as the ruling dictatorship? I can see needing an army, it's sort of a necessary function of a state, I do not see why you need them in charge of things entirely undemocratically
It really depends on what you mean by "army". At first glance I had the same reaction, that a military dictatorship is not good, but if you start to think about it as a people's army it doesn't seem so bad. The prospect of an actual socialist revolution in somewhere like Britain is so far fetched, but if it were to happen that would be the only way I could see it going down. There would be years of reaction to suppress, and I don't see how that's done without a very active and large people's army doing the suppressing.
Doesn't it really depend on whose values the military dictatorship is enforcing? I'm not saying that 48% is all communists or even mostly communists, but for us to get the world we want a military dictatorship is necessary for a time, is it not?
Yeah combining that with the 71% "there are different laws for rich and poor" strikes me as a survey that should have asked if folks are communists.
A dictatorship of the proletariat isn’t a military dictatorship. The military must be subject to a civilian government.
a mistake of the USSR was apoliticizing the military. China still has their army under the party.
Soviet military was not apolitic, but it was subject to a civilian government, and when civilian government went counterrevolitionary, military tried to act in August 1991, but weakly and indecisively, which resulted in abject failure.
What's the game plan look like to get the british army to overthrow the state and then also institute socialism at least?
And why would you want any army as the ruling dictatorship? I can see needing an army, it's sort of a necessary function of a state, I do not see why you need them in charge of things entirely undemocratically
It really depends on what you mean by "army". At first glance I had the same reaction, that a military dictatorship is not good, but if you start to think about it as a people's army it doesn't seem so bad. The prospect of an actual socialist revolution in somewhere like Britain is so far fetched, but if it were to happen that would be the only way I could see it going down. There would be years of reaction to suppress, and I don't see how that's done without a very active and large people's army doing the suppressing.