>Well, I suppose that depends on where you are, e.g., in Japan or
>Somalia, to take extreme examples. It would be stupid to do politics
>in Japan as if you were in Somalia, but it would be also stupid to do
>politics in Somalia as if you were in Japan. But the type of people
>who confuse what may work in Japan and what may work in Somalia are
>lacking in common sense, not theory.
Some people have more immediate problems than the class war, in fact some people might consider the kind of economic dictatorship suffered by the working class in the rich world to be a very attractive alternative to their existing regime.
They may very well conclude that taking up arms to achieve that improvement may work. But to argue that it won't work as a solution to the class war against the capitalist economic dictatorship in no way contradicts the notion that taking up arms may be an effective strategy in other situations.
Horses for courses.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas