On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:30:01 -0400 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
As a critique of Right Wing militia fantasies, the above stands up well.
not sure what you mean by 'right wing' militias, but razer's little piece of left wing statist propangada is just that - propaganda - so it dpesn't stand up well. also, this is not the first time he copy pastes that bullshit.
But as a statement about armed insurrection in general, it presents a straw man argument: Nobody will stage an armed insurrection against a 21st century government by using 18th century colonial strategy and tactics; anyone who tries it will certainly lose, early and badly.
nobody is going to fight the US nazis using just guns when you can use other cheap and effective weapons, so the point made by razer's bullshit propaganda, namely that you need a 'private' army funded by the kochs is...bullshit.
The strategic objectives of modern insurrections rarely include replacing the whole government, and winning tactical options rarely include defeating the national armed forces in head to head conflict; that requires mass defection and non-compliance by the opposing force.
Instead, an insurrection seeks "redress of grievances" i.e. radical changes in State policy and procedures. Bringing commerce to a halt via boycotts, civil disobedience, sabotage,
commerce? I thought the objective was the government? Certainly the economic operations of the corporate arm of the govt are a legitimate target, but not all commerce per se.
etc. reliably produces maximum results at minimum risk. "Economic terrorism" ranks at or near first place in formal assessments of threats to State and Corporate power today.
The State exists to provide a stable environment for commerce and to enforce the rights, so called, of absentee landlords.
eh? The state exists to rule people and to feed itself. "A stable enviroment for commerce" or a free market, is exactly what the state does NOT provide.
It has no other purpose.
lolwut. The very purpose of the state is to allow criminals to extort, steal, kidnap, murder, etc while pretending to be "the law". no doubt states play a big role in enforcing mercantilism, crony capitalism, corporatism or whatever name you want to use for the non-free market, controlled by special interests we have, but that's not the only reason for the state to exist - at all.
When the State fails in these missions and can not restore business as usual by force, the State's owner/operators come to the bargaining table prepared to make concessions. In the United States, the Labor Movement and Civil Rights Movement achieved significant objectives working within this model of domestic political warfare.
LMAO. What 'objectives' did they ever achieve.
Competent insurrectionists do not kill people except in self defense; murdering one's opponents only makes it difficult or impossible for the survivors to come to the bargaining table mentioned above. "Off The Pig" was a heavily promoted slogan in the 60s and 70s when the FBI was running "Communist" revolutionary cells in the United States - guess who promoted it, and why?
Our rulers and their faithful servants make every reasonable effort to provide the public with pre-failed models of rebellion,
indeed, and that's what the 'lefty' 'civil disobedience' 'movement' in the US is. Fully controlled opposition.
and to deny the public access to information about practical populist politics. "Rebel As You Are Told" ranks second behind "Divide The Conquered" among the most necessary, persistent and well funded themes in State and Corporate propaganda today. Anyone who wants to see input from public at large have any impact of State policy and Corporate behavior faces a long uphill climb. Any chance of success must start with basic political education. An example of such:
http://pilobilus.net/strategic_conflict_docs_intro.html
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