Force is also necessary for the maintenance of capitalist productive relations on the global scale, so no nation will think of transition to socialism or even a social state that seeks to benefit the nation more and foreign capital less under the same capitalism (the history of Iran is a very good example of this fact -- neither Mossadegh nor Khomeini sought to end capitalism, but the former's government was overthrown by the Anglo-American coup, and Iran under the latter's government was invaded by Iraq, which was armed by just about all major powers of the world).
If workers of the West ever think of doing away with the source of their economic insecurity, they will be no doubt subject to the same force. It's just that here in the relatively richer West most workers never think of that. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>