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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 29 points 2 months ago (38 children)

Anarchy sounds cool until you realize billionaires would just own the militias and now we're right back to an oligarchy.

[–] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Billionaires already own the police, which number over 700,000 in the US alone and the national police budget would be equivalent to the third most expensive army in the world. If this is already the state of things, how could we blame that on the anarchists? This argument effectively boils down to "we shouldn't have a revolution because the rich would have a monopoly on violence", which we already know to be the case in our current society. So in this way, nothing at all is holding us back. The worst case scenario would be a preservation of the status quo. Even if the Proud Boys, III%ers, Patriot Front, Oath Keepers, etc. all combined into a giant mercenary group, it wouldn't be even close to how the cops already are. They're one of the most militarized police forces in the world with access to heavy equipment such as assault rifles, chemical weapons, acoustic weaponry, MRAPs, and much more.

If the revolution ever comes, we'll just have to take all the billionaires to the Ipatiev House. A revolution would already have no recourse but to defeat any police opposition anyway, so there really is no difference whether the billionaires are around or not. Those billionaires, if they have any sense of self-preservation, would be smarter to take their money and simply flee abroad.

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