The Associated Press Monday, October 26, 2009
^^^^
This reminded me of a self-acting armed organization of the population (smile)
CB
"From the viewpoint of the vast majority of Europeans of the end of the 19th century, whom Engels was addressing, and who had not gone through or closely observed a single great revolution, it could not have been otherwise. They could not understand at all what a “self-acting armed organization of the population” was. When asked why it became necessary to have special bodies of armed men placed above society and alienating themselves from it (police and a standing army), the West-European and Russian philistines are inclined to utter a few phrases borrowed from Spencer or Mikhailovsky, to refer to the growing complexity of social life, the differentiation of functions, and so on. "
_The State and Revolution_ :
Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm