The general population does not even see capitalism as a specific system, but rather "natural" like the birds or the trees i.e not anything to give a second thought about.
Leftists treat the military in the same way. Despite being aware that it has always acted as the primary tool of the ruling classes throughout history, too many leftists, even "revolutionary" ones, think of it as an institution that must necessarily exist.
This explains why there is no serious materialist or Marxist analysis of the military itself in academia. This is a mistake, in my opinion. No military = no ruling class. It's that simple. We should focus our ideological and practical efforts on forming a people's militia and taking real power(guns, tanks, planes etc) in our hands. That is true "revolutionary" action.
This is not me being blackpilled and I'm not a fed, I'm simply stating the truth. Any leftist political action that isnt arming and organising itself with the open intent of military action is useless. Thanks for listening to my FED talk.
that creates an institution rife for opportunism and liberal or even fascistic co-opting, if it even got to that size since the repressive arms of the state will use agent provocateurs, bad jacketing, false flag attacks, etc. to justify labeling the militia a terrorist organisation and promptly round up the leaders. The working class movement must be grounded in what the working class actually want and are ready to do, and as of right now that does not involve creating extremely organised militias (although some cities are probably prepared for the nascent stages of that development, which are community self-defence clubs)