“We will be cruel to the [fascists], and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the [fascists] won’t be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the [fascists] will be sickened by us, and the [fascists] will talk about us, and the [fascists] will fear us. And when the [fascists] closes their eyes at night and they’re tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?”
Fascists obviously need to be killed, but I don’t see why they should be tortured. Torture takes valuable time from our soldiers in which they could otherwise rest, replenish their resources, or contemplate tactics. If our soldiers just take five minutes torturing one fascist - not allowing for lunch, coffee breaks, restroom time, rotations, briefings, and other logistical issues - by the time they finish 480 of them you wasted a whole workweek. Even with miss rates that necessitate ~1.5 bullets per fascist, it is more economical to just shoot them in the long run, and more importantly it makes us faster than them.
Communists shouldn’t torture anyway. The Chinese revolutionaries literally rehabilitated and re-educated royalty. It’s worth trying for most, I think. The Vietnamese revolutionaries did not torture yanks, they worked to convince their “POWs” (captive invaders) that they were fighting an evil war. Beria worked to have the torturer Yezhov executed.
Obviously it is more complicated than that when it comes to the willfully ignorant and the opaquely malicious. We should hold no qualms with fascists eating lead in revolutionary self-defense.
“We will be cruel to the [fascists], and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the [fascists] won’t be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the [fascists] will be sickened by us, and the [fascists] will talk about us, and the [fascists] will fear us. And when the [fascists] closes their eyes at night and they’re tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?”
Fascists obviously need to be killed, but I don’t see why they should be tortured. Torture takes valuable time from our soldiers in which they could otherwise rest, replenish their resources, or contemplate tactics. If our soldiers just take five minutes torturing one fascist - not allowing for lunch, coffee breaks, restroom time, rotations, briefings, and other logistical issues - by the time they finish 480 of them you wasted a whole workweek. Even with miss rates that necessitate ~1.5 bullets per fascist, it is more economical to just shoot them in the long run, and more importantly it makes us faster than them.
Bro literally developing lean manufacturing theory but for killing fascists. 🗿
Communists shouldn’t torture anyway. The Chinese revolutionaries literally rehabilitated and re-educated royalty. It’s worth trying for most, I think. The Vietnamese revolutionaries did not torture yanks, they worked to convince their “POWs” (captive invaders) that they were fighting an evil war. Beria worked to have the torturer Yezhov executed.
Obviously it is more complicated than that when it comes to the willfully ignorant and the opaquely malicious. We should hold no qualms with fascists eating lead in revolutionary self-defense.