I’m worldbuilding a fictional universe centred on communist societies, and I want to write the socialism/communism aspects as accurately as possible.

So if a country is currently monarchist, fascist, imperialist, etc but with a socialist revolution is underway, there is certainly going to be extreme resistance from the existing State. In a situation like this, do you think the socialist revolution should do things that help them, but would be considered unethical in war, aka “war crimes”? For example, things like poisoning key figures of the existing State, using “cruel weapons”, torture, etc. Especially if the existing State is already acting in that way? Would this contradict socialist philosophy or morality? What if the revolution is in danger of being extinguished by the State?

  • Marxism-FennekinismOP
    1•2 years ago

    Chemical and Biological weapons are illegal, but I also don’t see the moral use case of them from people who are supposedly liberating their fellow worker, so imo that one would contradict them.

    I’m curious if you think there’s a difference between, say, poisoning an entire building or city’s water supply, versus targeted person-specific poisoning of key ruling figures to quietly assassinate them and eliminate them from being able to aid the reactionary State (which is the kind I was getting at). Would both be contradictions? What would set the former apart from assassination with a gun for example? (BTW I don’t claim to support either IRL, obviously that would be different from fiction.)

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭
      2•2 years ago

      IDK if any would use anything besides tear gas, or perhaps specific enemy areas like CIA headquarters or a base. Any chance it would hit a working class population, an innocent one at that, would make communist leaders shirk from using such things. This is assuming the communists are real ones and care for the working class.