• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    12 hours ago

    Opportunity" is not the same thing as “being given a leadership position in a small leftist organization during a time when armed combat is not required”. Zhukov and Chavez had to earn a lot of trust with their lives on the line in combat to get to where they were, especially Zhukov.

    And the first step to do that is by accepting they could be of service to the cause despite their prior affiliation.

    Also "“being given a leadership position in a small leftist organization during a time when armed combat is not required”. Is your conditional, not mine.

    How about learning from the people who the us military lost against and/or who have experience fighting them. Veterans can act as trainers but they shouldn’t be let near leadership positions for the same reason you don’t want “former neo nazis” in positions of leadership either.

    Well, most of the time revolutions happen locally and the people who beat the US military are located across the globe?

    Also trainers are leaders? I don’t know why you are nit picking at the use of leadership, that’s your claim and has nothing to do with my original argument.

    Yes as the counterrevolutionary fascist paramilitary sent to kill the revolutionaries

    Lol, I’m not saying there won’t be ex military counter revolutionary forces. But what leads you to believe there won’t be ex military revolutionary forces?

    Surely a successful revolution would be possible without having “former nazis” in charge.

    Can you give me any examples of successful revolutions that are made up of revolutionary fighters completely devoid of any combat experience? You can’t just pick up a rifle with your buds and stand against a trained fire team.