#forgottenwords — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forgottenwords, aggregated by home.social.
-
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·#stateandrevolution point
2) Marx's #forgottenwords
"The *first* decree of the Commune...was the suppression of the standing army, and the substitution for it of the armed people"
This sounds like a great idea, and I have a long history of supporting it ( see for example, https://defdist.org )
but a couple of subthoughts are knawing at me
i) #betterangelsofournature the long arc of history seems to be against empowering individuals to be more violent. It's of course pro-leviathan and the whole point here seems to be to do away with the monopoly of violence generally. But I do think there's some handwaving about the tendencies for internecine tit-for-tat to get out of control if everyone's armed. Maybe there's no general solution here and it's a community-by-community thing?
ii) How *do* you arm a people against firebombing? Is this one of those "we'll solve that problem once we start getting closer to being firebombed?" There seems to be not only a guns vs butter problem here but also one of too much generality of 'what are you arming them against'? Granted 'armed' is a pretty general purpose concept...
:communism: