Anarchists and M-Ls in the West have the exact same number of tanks and the capacity to produce them: absolutely none. Unless there's a significant number of secret Revolutionary Leftists seeded throughout the armored divisions of the US and its allies, or some massive underground network of tank factories somewhere, this is just making noise.
If you can convince me on how we can a parade of tanks going down the streets of Montreal before the climate apocalypse consumes us all, I'll call myself a tankie, but I'm just not seeing it.
Ideally the conflict of open battle won't actually start occurring until after the people have those means through worker councils and the radical membership of unions being willing to seize them. Open warfare in the form described in this article won't occur until long after many factories that are capable of such production have been taken.
Just look at previous revolutions. The civil war doesn't occur until a little while after the initial revolutionary-moment. It is in that revolutionary moment when the state is undergoing crisis that the proletariat suddenly finds themselves in control of the means.
That moment was the moment "all power to the soviets" was declared in Russia. The real open conflict follows the moment that provides the means. Everything up to that point is resistance, movement-building, growth and building the apparatus of dual-power to be capable of making that seizure when the time comes.
Anarchists and M-Ls in the West have the exact same number of tanks and the capacity to produce them: absolutely none. Unless there's a significant number of secret Revolutionary Leftists seeded throughout the armored divisions of the US and its allies, or some massive underground network of tank factories somewhere, this is just making noise.
If you can convince me on how we can a parade of tanks going down the streets of Montreal before the climate apocalypse consumes us all, I'll call myself a tankie, but I'm just not seeing it.
🤫 You can't tell them about the People's Subterranean Republic yet ffs, they're not ready
Ideally the conflict of open battle won't actually start occurring until after the people have those means through worker councils and the radical membership of unions being willing to seize them. Open warfare in the form described in this article won't occur until long after many factories that are capable of such production have been taken.
Just look at previous revolutions. The civil war doesn't occur until a little while after the initial revolutionary-moment. It is in that revolutionary moment when the state is undergoing crisis that the proletariat suddenly finds themselves in control of the means.
That moment was the moment "all power to the soviets" was declared in Russia. The real open conflict follows the moment that provides the means. Everything up to that point is resistance, movement-building, growth and building the apparatus of dual-power to be capable of making that seizure when the time comes.
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