The Problem With the Military in a Revolution

The democratic socialist tradition has come up with all kinds of ways of trying to work around this, most notably later on, non reformist reforms. But that gradualist approach, or Fabian approach, as it was called in Britain under the Fabian society is going to be very slow and piecemeal. It still seems very hard to envision how you would get there from here in a democratic system where periodically the left wing parties are going to lose elections to right wing parties. At the other end of the spectrum, you have Lenin and the heavily militarized Russian revolution. And the issue with revolution in general is that at some point in a revolution, you get the involvement of the military even if