[lbo-talk] Nepal and Venezuela: the Military Angle

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug wrote:
>>Joel Wendland wrote:
>>
>>Another approach to this issue in a general way might be to ask what
>>kind of state is created by any kind of armed insurgency.
>
>C'mon, admit it - wouldn't it be fun to take power and shoot all your
>enemies? I've been working on a little list here....

Of course, it would be better if one had so many loyal comrades in the
existing military that, with only a few purges, the military itself
would become the bulwark of revolution, as in Venezuela.  But that's
not happening in Nepal, the land of Gurkhas. . . .

In any event, taking control of military power, whether through the
transformation of the existing one or revolutionaries organizing their
own effective armed forces, has been the key to the founding and
defense of any democratic republic.  Those who fail to do so don't
last.

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