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I’ll set down how the baby killer rhetorical device is an ultra leftist boondoggle for the time being.
States need militaries. Without force, a state cannot defend its sovereignty. Will you only support an American revolution that brings its own parallel military structure along and includes no former members of the American military?
Even if I were to concede the point you just made, which I won’t, it requires foreclosing on any revolution in the imperial core. That may or may not be a foregone conclusion but it ain’t exactly the kind of thing you can build a polemic or propaganda machine around.
I think that excluding people that try to say they didn't do anything wrong when they were the literal armed guard for American inperialism is a good way to make sure you're movement isn't filled with fascists with no political knowledge.
You realize this is the exact argument liberals make when they explain why it's a good thing we're giving self avowed nazis unlimited unrestricted weapons in Ukraine right?
"If theyre helping us fight our enemies who cares what their beliefs are." - somebody 6 months from being shot in the back of the head