Anarchists and M-Ls in the West have the exact same number of tanks and the capacity to produce them: absolutely none. Unless there’s a significant number of secret Revolutionary Leftists seeded throughout the armored divisions of the US and its allies, or some massive underground network of tank factories somewhere, this is just making noise.
If you can convince me on how we can a parade of tanks going down the streets of Montreal before the climate apocalypse consumes us all, I’ll call myself a tankie, but I’m just not seeing it.
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.
Well, sometimes when a Mommy Tank and a Daddy Tank love each other very much, or get caught up in a moment, or sometimes it’s a Deuce and a Half or a Technical…
More people here need to read this.
I WONT READ THEORY
I WILL WATCH VAUSH CLIPS INSTEAD /s
This was pointlessly condescending. Also no leftists in the west has a single tank (or comparable military arsenal). Get off the computer, hug an anarchist, shut up about this bullshit “tank-mindset” and organize for your local union or help in a refugee camp. This is online posturing in it’s most pure form.
