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They have the support of the military forces. So rioting doesn't work. It just gets you killed on the street with no repercussions for the government. Also, th
by whoisjuan 8y ago
They have the support of the military forces. So rioting doesn't work. It just gets you killed on the street with no repercussions for the government.
Also, the word "leader" implies that this is a legitimate democracy, which is not. Venezuela has an authoritarian corrupt government at best, a dictatorship at worst.
- NedIsakoff 8y agoA wise leader once said: All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoI think the quote is actually, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," per Google and Wikipedia. Is this part of Marxist theory, or Maoist? I genuinely don't know. I had always thought that Marx viewed the revolution as at least potentially peaceful, but I confess I have never read him.
- perilunar 8y agoIt was Mao Zedong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_t...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoAh, I know who it was. I was more asking whether he was reflecting a viewpoint from earlier Marxist theory, or whether it was a novel viewpoint of his.
- NedIsakoff 8y agoI think he based it on reality rather than theory. Every communist government has use force to "maintain the revolution": USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, China, Romania, etc.