You know for all this fear of #DonaldTrump declaring #MartialLaw and ordering the #Military and #Troops to mow down #Protesters like #BlackLivesMatter, #FreePalestine From The #Genocide by #Israel, #ClimateAction, etc. or fear mongering about the #Draft and forcing young people into the #Army like in #Vietnam (which is stated to be in #Project2025 but is in a Senate #NDAA Bill)...
There would be a #protests & even a #mutiny within the army against stuff like that.
I say this as history has shown this as we look at stuff like the October #Revolution of 1917 & the #Paris Commune of 1871.
I point to the US Army because there is evidence that if #MartialLaw was declared, they wouldn't partake into the order and simply go home. And they could as well side with a popular revolution for change like #NoWar.
Where are my my evidence from? Well, #BernieSanders was the best case example of it!
(Read by @socialismforall): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDdZSul62gk
In both 2016 & 2020, #BernieSanders out funded #DonaldTrump.
A man who argued for #EndingWars, bringing #MedicareForAll and #TaxTheRich where as #JoeBiden & #KamalaHarris are actively supporting more #wars for #imperialism, helping the #rich get away with everything.
Again, polling data has shown overwhelming support for Bernie Sanders from the #troops and #military in the #DemocraticParty
than ever in history.
There is very good reason to believe that a significant number of the #military would side with a popular #revolution against the #US government.
Many of them are principled #libertarian types, and if called upon to enforce #martiallaw, would simply go home.
Historically popular #revolutions and national #liberation movements haven't just been cheerleader exclusively by #communists, but by nationalists, #socialists, social democrats, religious groups, and conservative groups as well.
Many #revolutions are lead by coalitions.
It's the task of the #communists to unite with other groups when short term goals align, and struggle against them in order to keep the movement on the path towards #communism.
Just because a group of people participated in the original #revolution and helped to make it happen doesn't necessarily mean they are dedicated communists.
There were numerous "old #bolsheviks" that actively conspired against the construction of #socialism and sought to seize power for themselves and enact their own political agenda.
#JosephStalin's wing of the party struggled hard against the #revisionists and #opportunists and class-alien elements. He wasn't the only one struggling, it was a group of tendencies that struggled against one another.
(Rea by @socialismforall): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=est9aqdlKlg&list=PLXUFLW8t2snt73W7oPDILIdKkGQ9uOVy2&pp=iAQB
Since, they just brought back the #draft. Whether or not it will be enforced has yet to be seen. Needless to say, it is far easier to get a group of teenagers #drafted against their will to #mutiny than those whom volunteer of their own volition.
Mutiny within the #army played a prominent role in the October #revolution.
Reminds me of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lau-h3fYIvQ
I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I am somewhere in between Stalinism and Trotskyism. I can see benefits in some aspects of Stalin's form of governance, but there were also many things that Stalin did that I'm against, such as his extremely idiotic rejection of Mendelian Genetics through his promotion of the pseudoscientific concept of Lysenkoism, which led to the imprisonment, exile, and execution of many prominent scientists and severely set back biological research in Russia. 1/2
That is just one instance of how Stalin harmed the Soviet Union and its citizens, but I'd like to ask you, why is it that you believe that the Soviet Union couldn't have lasted without Stalin in control? 2/2
"There is very good reason to believe that a significant number of the military would side with a popular revolution against the US government."
(1a) What's "a significant number"? 1%, 50% or 80% - ballpark for me.
(1b) How did you arrive at that number?
(2) What percentage of the military siding with popular revolution is required for the revolution to succeed?
(3) What makeup of specialisation is required for (2)? Does a 90% infantry outweigh 5% Air Force, for example?
The GQP will reinstall the military draft..not a joke