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.
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.