Ideally the conflict of open battle won’t actually start occurring until after the people have those means through worker councils and the radical membership of unions being willing to seize them. Open warfare in the form described in this article won’t occur until long after many factories that are capable of such production have been taken.

Just look at previous revolutions. The civil war doesn’t occur until a little while after the initial revolutionary-moment. It is in that revolutionary moment when the state is undergoing crisis that the proletariat suddenly finds themselves in control of the means.

That moment was the moment “all power to the soviets” was declared in Russia. The real open conflict follows the moment that provides the means. Everything up to that point is resistance, movement-building, growth and building the apparatus of dual-power to be capable of making that seizure when the time comes.