>>388544>Slavery was ended via a war in the USA, but not in many other countries. In Britain, center of the abolitionist movement, it was banned without any war and decades before the US got around to it.Learn what a monopoly on violence is. And Britain did so because slavery had become antiquated in regards to its economy and it's industrial capitalists dominated, while in America you still had division between the dominant plantation owners in the south and the dominant industrial capitalists to the north.
>I’m not by any means against social upheaval like that of the suffragettes, I’m just against intentionally killing people. Willingness to resort to brutality and non-democratic means to establish a state locks you in to using extreme violence to maintain it, and in doing so the chance to build socialism slips awayThen we'll never get anywhere, and we'll suffer the mutual ruin of the classes instead. If you actually saw communism as your conviction, the means wouldn't actually matter, what is actually consequential in regards to your end goals is what would matter. The capitalist didn't succeed by playing nice. And if you're not willing to at least match the violence they are willing to escalate to, then you can wave socialism goodbye, and we can all embrace collapse without progress.