Reply #53: Politics are fundamental.

[JackRiddler]

Armed resistance is not justified in the present American context. Not politically or morally.

If you can't get millions of outraged and determined people out on the street persistently to shut down the war system in the first place, then armed action is mere vanguarding, doomed to failure in a modern context (this is not Cuba in 1959). As long as the people are passive in the face of their own ongoing impoverishment, activist energy can only be invested productively in media, education and organizing -- at the very least, social experimentation (making alternative models available for the inevitable moments of systemic crisis).

Armed resistance is justified only if the government is engaging in mass suppression of political resistance. They aren't. They do engage in COINTELPRO and surveillance many other deceptions and violations of basic rights of citizens, yes. But they haven't attacked the people as a whole, because there has not been a need for it. And I doubt they would be able to do so, if there were a need for it.