You're assuming the same thing; that there will be an intact bourgeise state to fight. If we can simply break down the current system and watch it fall, why not do that?
Again, ORGANIZATION IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT A STATE.
Utilizing it for what? Killing the enemy? Controlling territory? Because that's exactly what it was intended to be used for, and that's how it would be used.
The establishment of a 'proper army' is also why every Marxist revolution falls into violent dictatorship. We are at a period in human history of unprecedented communication and military capabilities-but also at a stage where it is not considered acceptable to fight the enemy by any means neccessary. Using their own technology, we can defend ourselves against the state. What are soldiers, but workers? And what do we communists advocate? Worker control. That's what I'm proposing here. The soldiers control the military.
Levi Powell
Constant misconception. Outright war is relatively recent, most violence used to be raiding for resources (rare, usually only in bad years) or blood feud related such as the dishonour of family member or reneged on debt or some such thing.
For the most part however it was much more profitable to have good relations with your neighbours to trade.
Jonathan Torres
Before or after the existing state is overthrown?
That is precisely what we need to do when the system is vulnerable, and it will be vulnerable when its inherent contradictions become unmanagable.
But one single chain of command is not. All parts of the military have to act as one at all times. A modern military is a cohesive body.
See:
What is "acceptable" becomes absolutely everything when there is a real and imminent threat.
Ah, the universal soldier! That idea makes so much sense to someone who has never been one. If you are counting on serving soldiers rising up, then I have bad news for you. You have no idea how tight the leash is on those guys.
Adam Hernandez
You mean like the anthropologist who wrote that book I posted? You mean like the anthropology that uses evidence to support a hypothesis that societies before civilization were incredibly violent, instead of just positing what you want to believe?
Aiden Reyes
This post a goddamned godsend. Why can't Anarcho-kiddies learn the fact that anarchy will never work. Humans need guidance and leaders. Jesus!
Jayden Young
Anarchy will work, once we have achived communism. Till then, there need to be hierarchies. Just not economical.
