Bang, bang, you're dead Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:16:46 -0800 From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com>
> under those conditions, some of the military will be ours!
people will have
> defected taking some of the toys with them. not to mention the
really
> obvious case that, under conditions, of civil way, you will be
looking at
> civil war, where it won't be so easy to just blast away an
entire community
> because doing so will cause an already challenged power
structure to lose
> even more legitimacy.
>
> the larger point is that perhaps the antipathy toward
violence, in
> principle, is misplaced.
>
> kelley
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Fair enough. Are those who do not suffer an antipathy towards violence in achieving their aims prepared to deal with nukes, chem-bio-weapons and the sheer mounds of dead flesh...............? Who, after the battle[s], will 'volunteer' for burial 'duty'?
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CB: Of course, you raise a very , very difficult hurdle for socialism, especially in the U.S. Do you ,because of it, say there can be no end to capitalism, we should give up ? or do you have an idea for a guaranteed peaceful path out of capitalism ?