tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525777687738630588.post1731983744362457706..comments2012-02-25T08:11:04.065-06:00Comments on RUDE REDS: Ivan, Get Your Guncomrade xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07102222967414702798noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525777687738630588.post-90705335518246721312010-05-31T09:10:00.631-05:002010-05-31T09:10:00.631-05:00Arming the workers and peasants was a desperate st...Arming the workers and peasants was a desperate step for the bourgeoisie in the French Revolution of 1789. Ownership of weapons was traditionally strictly controlled by the aristocracy in France and throughout the world, really. In France Napoleon managed to get the Revolutionary genie back in the bottle by conscripting the armed masses into his armies. In Russia the same process was adopted by Stalin. But America was quite a different state of affairs. In France and Russia almost all of the arms came from state arsenals- they were never considered privately owned by the citizens they were issued to. In America private ownership of arms was an absolute necessity if one were to survive in the wilderness. It also allowed the new ruling class to have a ready made militia in place instead of having a ruinously expensive army like the nations of Europe. Besides, any attempt to ban the ownership of firearms would have been met with a violent overthrow of the new government. This is partly the reason why the methods of controlling the workers of the U.S. are original and subtle, because our new aristocrats knew they had a wolf by the ears.comrade xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07102222967414702798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525777687738630588.post-3616312270472666932010-05-31T07:39:22.969-05:002010-05-31T07:39:22.969-05:00Trotsky (and if I'm not mistaken, Marx too) po...Trotsky (and if I'm not mistaken, Marx too) pointed out that after a successful bourgeois revolution - led by the propertied class with the help of the workers - the first thing the new rulers always set out to do was disarm the working class. For example, after the February Revolution in Russia, the new coalition government, left-leaning but still unwilling to make a complete break with capitalism, got the fear in them that those forces that helped unseat the Tsar might prove too volitile to control. But in October of the same year, the Bolsheviks weren't worried about maintaining forceful domination. They correctly left the firearms in the workers - which makes sense, as they were the ones calling for the workers' demonstrations to arm themselves all along anyway.<br /><br />Historically, the situation of the US has been very different - a complete anomoly, really. Here the US working class aligned with the propertied class and threw out the British aristocracy. But the fledgling country was still very much in a precarious state. And since this was the dawn of industrialization, the workers weren't factory workers. In the balance of power on the North American continent, they were pioneers; the ruling class used them to kill off the natives and expand west. Again in the interests of property. It's one of the basic reasons that gun ownership has remained in the American cultural tradition.00000https://www.blogger.com/profile/14517195496976131374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525777687738630588.post-30867110562745632342010-05-30T22:36:13.862-05:002010-05-30T22:36:13.862-05:00I love it when my LGC comrades visit my blog.I love it when my LGC comrades visit my blog.comrade xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07102222967414702798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525777687738630588.post-22635953763139689992010-05-30T17:40:02.929-05:002010-05-30T17:40:02.929-05:00Thanks for the tip about Hi-Point! Wish I'd kn...Thanks for the tip about Hi-Point! Wish I'd known about them sooner, I would've picked up their 9mm sidearm...but now I already own a Taurus PT111 Pro that fills that niche.<br /><br />The carbines are sweet, too. I own a WASR-10 that I got for around $400 during the Bush administration, and I own 2 SKS's, a Yugo and a Chinese Norinco. I really love the Soviet TT-33, had a chance to buy one once but let it go and I've had an impossible time trying to find one since. I did see one later rechambered for 38 Super, but I want one in the original Soviet caliber. This was the pistol before the Makarov, carried in WW2 by the Red Army and featured in some pretty iconic photos from the war.<br /><br />Another money-saving way to hone marksmanship skills are with air pistols and air rifles (BB & pellet) and AirSoft (especially the ones that shoot little paint-balls powered by C02). Lets you conserve real ammo but still get in practice time. See you at the range, comrades!JJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03373297787542059116noreply@blogger.com