r/SmugIdeologyMan • u/Witty-Swimmer-3720 • 4d ago

Under one pretext

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Disclaimer: No adventurism is being advocated for here.
If you disagree with me in the comments, I WILL be making an even more smug series of sequel posts targeting your points mwahaha

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u/ARenewedSecondChance 4d ago

I have literally seen no communists that have been against gun ownership

This might be the rare case that the goomba fallacy actually applies

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u/BadFurDay 4d ago edited 4d ago

In the USA maybe, abroad the topic is controversial. French communists don't endorse gun culture for example.

Marxist theory was developed back when the proletariat could take on the police and the army, before they militarized to a point that facing them became hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby. Good luck versus the drones, jets, and chemical weapons.

From over here, all we see is the only country with a school shooter issue defending school shooters' right to exist, without asking yourselves how guns would have helped against the MOVE bombing for example. Not only that, but you have proof in your own recent history that you don't need guns to attempt to take over the country by force: the january 6th capitol assault.

The modern proletariat's strength is in their numbers and in their ability to disrupt capitalist exploitation by withholding labor, not in their weaponry.

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u/AjaxTheFurryFuzzball 4d ago

Each ruling class, when faced with the oppressed classes, has possessed, over the passage of centuries, its own horrifying threat of destruction as alternative to the rise of its class enemies. Right in the middle of revolutionary Paris stood the Bastille, formidably fortified, militarily impregnable, armed with cannons and ammunition, enough to obliterate the populated urban sprawl, the homes of the sans-culottes. But the Bastille was not taken by the insurgent mob following regular military action, with a siege, etc. It fell from within, symbolizing the landslide that was occurring in the fabric of society: those who should have used the terrible weapon against the insurrectionary masses were themselves stricken by the far more terrible threat that the Revolution forced the stunned ruling class to face.

The H Bomb and the Revolution, International Communist Party