The former Soviet Union established gun control in 1929 and as a result, Stalin’s government killed 40 million Soviets. This is a clear example of how gun control can be used to oppress a population and take away their right to self-defense.
“Old truths keep their force for him who has not seen them before” was once said by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German poet from about the same time of Marx. The meaning of this quote is with a proverb like “measure twice, cut once” may seem old, but to someone who never learned it, the advice prevents waste and teaches care. The truth “keeps their force.”
In other words, just because an idea is old does not make it invalid.
Just because an idea is old doesn’t make it valid either.
See for example:
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
This is going over a lot better than when I said it, in progressivepolitics@lemmy.world no less. What a difference a month makes these days, I suppose.
There are 12 downvotes that I guess your insurance/client doesn’t show, making it a 2:1 up/down ratio. Sure it’s not downvote oblivion, but much less favorable than here, as I said, in the “progressive” politics community, to boot. I also know at least a few people upped it when I posted the above comment.
I would fuck with that sub Lemmy. I got into an argument and they deleted every single comment I made in another separate post, even though it was at +14. Idk if they’re tankies or punks, but they both quacking to me.
Yes, Karl Marx wrote:
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
“To be able forcefully and threateningly to oppose this party [bourgeois], the workers must be armed and organized.”
Followed shortly after by:
https://www.dictatorbaron.com/did-joseph-stalin-ban-guns/
And then they call everyone else revisionist
You think Stalin wouldn’t have killed all these people if they had guns?
law enforcers tend to be cowards. an armed community is harder to oppress
What?
Like…
I legitimately don’t know what you’re trying to say or why it’s relevant.
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
“…and as a result…”
Read your own pull quote.
Sage advice… for the 1850s.
“Old truths keep their force for him who has not seen them before” was once said by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German poet from about the same time of Marx. The meaning of this quote is with a proverb like “measure twice, cut once” may seem old, but to someone who never learned it, the advice prevents waste and teaches care. The truth “keeps their force.”
In other words, just because an idea is old does not make it invalid.
Just because an idea is old doesn’t make it valid either.
See for example:
Well, duh? What is your point? I didn’t say it was good because it is old. It was you who implied it was invalid because it was from the 1850’s.
No, I said: “Sage advice… for the 1850s.”
Whether it’s currently sage advice is debatable.
This is going over a lot better than when I said it, in progressivepolitics@lemmy.world no less. What a difference a month makes these days, I suppose.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19935457
You have 16 upvotes there though.
There are 12 downvotes that I guess your insurance/client doesn’t show, making it a 2:1 up/down ratio. Sure it’s not downvote oblivion, but much less favorable than here, as I said, in the “progressive” politics community, to boot. I also know at least a few people upped it when I posted the above comment.
I would fuck with that sub Lemmy. I got into an argument and they deleted every single comment I made in another separate post, even though it was at +14. Idk if they’re tankies or punks, but they both quacking to me.