Roles in the revolution

[Ahmed]

What are people who are not fit to do battle but agree with the ideas of the revolution supposed to offer? Disabled/old people as well as people who just aren't fit to fight.

[SubcomandanteJames]

What are people who are not fit to do battle but agree with the ideas of the revolution supposed to offer? Disabled/old people as well as people who just aren't fit to fight.


I think the revolution encompasses many roles, including teaching, feeding, aiding, and overall support. At many socialist/anarchist rallies where there is most likely going to be a skirmish, you'll often find people who show up not as rioters, but as medics, and cooks! However, if someone is so elderly and disable that they are simply unable to perform such duties, then it is the duty of the revolutionaries to fight for them, for they are the would-be throwaways of capitalist society, devoid of profitable worth, just as any life that refuses or cannot feed the hierarchical structure of capitalist economics.

[New Tet]

I think the revolution encompasses many roles, including teaching, feeding, aiding, and overall support. At many socialist/anarchist rallies where there is most likely going to be a skirmish, you'll often find people who show up not as rioters, but as medics, and cooks! However, if someone is so elderly and disable that they are simply unable to perform such duties, then it is the duty of the revolutionaries to fight for them, for they are the would-be throwaways of capitalist society, devoid of profitable worth, just as any life that refuses or cannot feed the hierarchical structure of capitalist economics.

Exactly so.

[Psy]

What are people who are not fit to do battle but agree with the ideas of the revolution supposed to offer? Disabled/old people as well as people who just aren't fit to fight.

Mostly producing utility.

[RotStern]

You do not need to be able to fight to help with the revolution. Simply supporting them and offering rebels excess food or water is more than enough.
That is of course is it is violent.
But simply offering support in any way is enough. :cool:

[LOLseph Stalin]

You do not need to be able to fight to help with the revolution. Simply supporting them and offering rebels excess food or water is more than enough.
That is of course is it is violent.
But simply offering support in any way is enough. :cool:

It's most likely going to be violent. The bourgeois pigs won't just hand over everything willingly. As we have seen in previous revolutions they will fight back and often they have the military and such on their side. I think as revolutionaries an important step for us would be getting the police and military on our side. They are working class too.

[Durruti's Ghost]

I think as revolutionaries an important step for us would be getting the police and military on our side. They are working class too.

If that happens, the revolution is as good as won. The bourgeoisie stands no chance against a full-on attack from a united working class.

The problem, of course, rests in the "uniting" part. Soldiers and police are the most extensively brainwashed sections of the working class, and they are unlikely to come over to our side until socialism has already been established.

[Sarah Palin]

Anyone who can't fire a gun should work on a propaganda campaign towards the petit-bourgeoisie to revolutionize them.

[bcbm]

We put them in vats of toxic waste and hope when they come out they have super powers that will make win for us.

This is Learning, not Chit-Chat. I don't see how posting crap like this helps anybody.

[RedAnarchist]

I removed the offtopic/spammy posts. If they reoccur, I'll move the topic to Chit Chat or close the thread.

[scarletghoul]

Revolution doesn't just involve fighting and violence. If it was just that it would be unsuccessful rioting. We need support, supplies, propaganda, theory, etc. Old and disabled people are capable of all of these

[BabylonHoruv]

Cooking, child care, medical support, making banners, teaching skills they have learned, telling stories, gardening (if physically able) manning a telephone

There are a million more possibilities for those unable to fight. Just because someone's capacities are limited in one way or another doesn't mean they don't have plenty to offer that is of value.

[Pogue]

Anyone not physically fit for the more physically demanding roles could do anything else they want to and can do. This could be any one of things.