Reply To: Dorking – No War But the Class War
Eee! Well. So SPGB semi-state disappears. Like ferret up trouserleg. What happens if them democratically controlled and communally owned cops and tanks prove administratively “useful” to the “working class” (or rather to the SPGB members substituting for them “via elections and parliament”)? Call me a sceptic but frankly I’m doubtful, very doubtful indeed.
By the time socialism is on the cards the entire social environment will have been radically transformed. Cops then will not be the same as cops now . Cops are just workers in uniform after all. Yes they tend to attract individuals less likely to be drawn to socialist ideas – although I personally know of one who was interested years ago – but even cops have been known to take industrial action. When the writing is on the wall for capitalism the cops will surely know which side their bread is buttered on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_strike
As for the SPGB “substituting” for the working class – c’mon you should know better than to come out with this nonsense. Besides SPGBers are workers themselves (or, at least, I am not aware of any capitalist in our midst although I might be wrong – weren’t there one or two in the past who were borderline capitalists like Fred?)