i was leaving house to go to street fest when phone buzz
"Trump is shoot"
"no"
i was leaving house to go to street fest when phone buzz
"Trump is shoot"
"no"
You'd be excused in thinking I didn't just invent it.
"I don't believe in anything besides trite platitudes, I treat politics as one-dimensional, I would have partisan advisors but somehow be able to fully resist the influence of money and party politics.
When you are approaching a highway exit, with one turn staying on the highway and one turn going off, my recommendation is to stick to the middle ground."
There is a flip side to this.
A state offers an obvious and historically proven vehicle for imperialists and internal counter-revolutionaries to derail, subsume, or decapitate a revolution. A revolution centered on a state will have a huge target that it advertises; a revolution that manages to operate horizontally will not.
The state apparatus emerged in conjunction with money, and it co-evolved with the development of capital. It's going to take a lot of de-coupling to get to a point where it's truly and fully independent.
You're forgetting so easily that most of the industry that's "required" to support a population has been offshored. Much of it went to a neighbor that in fact has multiple empirical examples of exactly what I'm talking about, with government crackdown being either fully stalled or outright absent.
A revolutionary situation isn't going to pop out of nowhere and hold contested territory. It's going to need capillaries in the hinterland so it can support itself with lower recognition and risk. And I'm not going to rehash the explanation of how a good quality of life can be secured mostly independently of gasoline technology here.
Before you started drifting the conversation with selective clapback quotes and refusing to specify an example as I asked for, you were talking about "defending the Revolution^TM^" from outside forces. Now you're talking about adversaries running on idealism popping up inside the territory, who are not a small minority, are not better off in the alternative to capitalism, and who somehow are equipped with everything they need to set up the systen of subordination and oppression again. I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith.
But my answer to the counter-revolutionaries question is that imperialist infrastructure is harder and lengthier to build and easier to destroy than autonomous infrastructure. It takes months of construction to build a bridge that can carry military equipment, and only 1 well-placed explosive to nullify it. If the power grid and petroleum distribution network were knocked out, the armed forces couldn't move a mile- and the same would be true of suburban pickup-truck-driving reactionaries, who would more likely shrivel in their subdivisions or get in a gunfight with their neighbors at the first sign of scarcity. Meanwhile for every anarchist it would be a sort of dream come true.
Moving prior to the question of military contention, if an anarchist movement in the West was integrated with the economy like China has been since the 80s, stamping it out would be an act of self-destruction by capitalists. If it wasn't, attempting to suppress it would still be weakening the metropole by the state turning on its own territory and population. In any given revolution, you don't start out from square one saying you're going to annihilate the government. You conceal your intention while you build up your capacities, so that you actually get a chance to act instead of being infiltrated, compromised, and executed.
I had a whole bunch of these discussions with 2 people in my scene IRL years ago, who insisted on the need to conduct conventional warfare or take over the military from the inside, under the assumption that you publicly declare a much larger enemy from the very inception. They had both just gotten out of the armed forces themselves. I call this "army brain". Anyway, neither of them are still involved in anti-capitalist organizing. One of them moved away and the other got kicked out of the local PSL.
Why is there a Ukrainian chemical weapons lab in fucking Avdiivka, a place that's been within easy striking distance for 10 years?
When I had an extended release dextroamphetamine salt prescription, no matter how hard I tried, I could not manage to nap any less than 10 hours after taking it, even if I was sleep deprived.
I almost feel like I could take a nap if I wanted
You may possibly not be able to do this for hours following your dosage.
"elite counterinsurgency troops"
The attempt succeeding would have been a good outcome.
The attempt failing is much much worse than it not occurring at all.