• bobzer@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    But ultimately so long as they have the monopoly on violence, nothing will change.

    What will a general strike accomplish if they can safely send goons into every workplace to kill people until productivity resumes?

    To resist the regime, violence shouldn’t be the first tool in the box, but it needs to be in there.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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      6 days ago

      Read the link. Pretty much every example where FDTD was used as a guidebook, the ruling regime had even more of an open violence policy even than the modern US (although, we’re catching up fast).

      The idea that the secret police might be shooting people in the streets or throwing them in prison for trying to change the system isn’t new for fascist systems or a sudden and unique problem we’re facing.