Socialism Vs Security

[New Tet]

I suspect some, if not many of you know about the following link:

http://eyeball-series.org/

Which brings to mind the following: How should a future socialist society handle the question of "security" as defined by present and possible geopolitical realities?

The assumption here, of course, is that socialism, as many of us envision it, will not necessarily be founded in all countries simultaneously. It's possible, as a result, that our new world will still require a standing army to protect itself from "enemies, foreign & domestic".

How would you handle security issues in your newly founded socialist democracy?

[redSHARP]

if the country is the size of say france or germany, i think a proper military would have to be raised. a strong intelligence and espionage branch would have to be created in order to weaken my neighbors. the army should never be deployed on home soil, have the basic set up of any conventianal army and be based off volenteers. thats what i got off the top of my head; any other suggestions (i most likely missed a few points or i am wrong)

[ckaihatsu]

I think it's important to keep in mind that a socialist / communist society would be factory- and workplace-centric in terms of economic, political, and social focus -- while the capitalist system is far more empire- and geographic / county-centric in those aspects.

Considering that one's current work status would be the sole determining factor of one's social status -- superseding today's myriad capitalist statuses of property ownership, wealth ownership, managerial rank, annual salary, employment history, head of household, education level, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social identity, and so on -- I think the role of security would *never* be outsourced, or secondary, to the co-control and co-running of the workplace by the workers themselves.

The tight integration of co-"ownership", co-management, co-control, co-operation, and co-labor would mean that there would be no question *in the first place* as to who "belongs" where -- a local community would necessarily be affiliated with a particular point of production, in all of its aspects. No one could even be "out of place" without it being obviously noticeable, much less a "security" threat. This full integration of tools with tool-users would liberate society to be freely and entirely political instead of *that* function being *forcibly outsourced into the hands of capital*, away from our collective control as labor.


Chris





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