Yes! A residue of dead socialist labor from the time when Marxism was an organized Marxism, the kind that really matters in the world.
<blockquote>[T]here are now 10 times as many AK-47s in the world as M16s, their American rival, the Soviets having given them away free to any movement they felt an empathy with or saw a use for.
The key to its success is its simple design, intended to ensure that even the unskilled women and children running the Soviet arms factories during wartime could mass-produce it for their fathers and sons on the front. It is so basic that crude versions have been produced in village workshops in Pakistan. "Compared to other automatic rifles at the time," says Maxime Piadiyshev, editor of Arms Export Review, "it was very simple in production, use and maintenance, with eight moving parts. This simplicity meant a poorly trained soldier could strip it within 50 seconds and easily clean and maintain it." ("'I Sleep Soundly': An Interview with Mikhail Kalashnikov," 10 October 2003, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1059879,00.html>)</blockquote>
I hope young Islamsits who hold AK-47s remember where they come from. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>