If he expounds too much he risks a ban, but let’s just say the the Vietnamese were an extremely organized and disciplined group who very much relied on authority
I don’t think respectfully explaining merits a sectarianism ban but yeah, that’s fair. I was thinking there might be something more specific than “these people were extremely successful and they were communists”
The imperialist powers will go to any lengths to destroy your revolution. They will stop at nothing.
While there is absolutely room for guerilla warfare operated by independent cells, this is only useful in a limited capacity in the context of an insurgency or when your command structure is fucked etc.
You don’t face down the full brunt of the NATO axis powers and survive in the longer term without a significant command structure and a necessary degree of authoritarianism.
There just was not enough resources to go around to provide for everyone and to support military actions. Compromises were necessarily made. If every unit or cell is squabbling amongst themselves for resources, intra-military infighting occurs and it threatens to hamstring military capacity. An insufficiency in hierarchy and authoritarian measures comes with the opportunity cost of permitting worse attacks from countries like the US; while it’s better to be more democratic, those are concerns for a civil government in peacetime. There is nothing more authoritarian than torching and poisoning the land, not to mention the generations to come.
It just put me closer to being in the shoes of those who fought for national liberation and revolution. It’s easy to say “You cannot make a revolution wearing white gloves” but really sitting down and encountering what this truly means on a practical, realistic, and very tangible level created a fissure in my idealism that would prove to be irreparable later on.
They will come for your revolution and if you aren’t capable of out-organising them then your revolution will be strangled in its crib.
I recommend seeing it if you ever get the chance.
It’s one of the things that shook the anarchism out of me.
If you have the time/energy would you mind elaborating? I’m not an anarchist but sometimes I am at a loss for good ways to explain why
If he expounds too much he risks a ban, but let’s just say the the Vietnamese were an extremely organized and disciplined group who very much relied on authority
I don’t think respectfully explaining merits a sectarianism ban but yeah, that’s fair. I was thinking there might be something more specific than “these people were extremely successful and they were communists”
The imperialist powers will go to any lengths to destroy your revolution. They will stop at nothing.
While there is absolutely room for guerilla warfare operated by independent cells, this is only useful in a limited capacity in the context of an insurgency or when your command structure is fucked etc.
You don’t face down the full brunt of the NATO axis powers and survive in the longer term without a significant command structure and a necessary degree of authoritarianism.
There just was not enough resources to go around to provide for everyone and to support military actions. Compromises were necessarily made. If every unit or cell is squabbling amongst themselves for resources, intra-military infighting occurs and it threatens to hamstring military capacity. An insufficiency in hierarchy and authoritarian measures comes with the opportunity cost of permitting worse attacks from countries like the US; while it’s better to be more democratic, those are concerns for a civil government in peacetime. There is nothing more authoritarian than torching and poisoning the land, not to mention the generations to come.
It just put me closer to being in the shoes of those who fought for national liberation and revolution. It’s easy to say “You cannot make a revolution wearing white gloves” but really sitting down and encountering what this truly means on a practical, realistic, and very tangible level created a fissure in my idealism that would prove to be irreparable later on.
They will come for your revolution and if you aren’t capable of out-organising them then your revolution will be strangled in its crib.