Marx made regular writings and letters to contemporary movements up until his death. At no point did he back down on violent, sudden revolution as the path to achieving Socialism. Marx was many things, but he wasn’t anti-gun.

I think it’s worth bearing in mind that when Marx wrote that, guns were still using powder and percussion caps.

The Gatling Gun predates came out a 5 years before Das Kapital. Sure arms hadn’t had the revolution they’d get during WW1 yet, but they were plenty capable.

The other is offensive yes.

Militaries tend to do both this things.

What is the fediverse chat equivalent?

This is the sort of outcome that comes when you hire people who were, “racist before either was cool.”

Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last Windows? I 'member.

At this moment maybe. But they had, in leave time, more autonomy than Puerto Rico.

Hamas has zero tanks, zero airplanes, zero competence. I’m pretty sure they’d lose a war to a number of New World Cartels. That’s not really a real comparison.

Gaza has had autonomy for 20 years.

This particular conflict did indeed start then.