Cuba set up weapons caches in each town to offer full opportunity for armed rebellion if the people believe the government doesn't represent them. Nkrumah set up liberation schools to arm, train, and create militant pan Africans. Bolivia, the anti imperialist school
Venezuela was recreated by Chavez with a redemption and reshaping of the military to work for the people, acting as a civil corps building public housing, modernizing the entire country. The Black Panthers for the most part required their armed members to read theory before carry
Dar Es Salaam was in itself meant to be a place of study and this is where Walter Rodney found himself in the mist of writing How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. The USSR had schools based in teaching, developing Marxist thought that Harry Haywood studied with, joining the CPUSA.
Fidel Castro, while imprisoned, spent his entire time reading and writing, before he ever led the revolution against Batista. One of the most important aspects of socialism as its existed is that militancy has been requested or required, always hand in hand with personal study
One of the questions posed by the const. "uprising" clause is how the inhabitants of the US would viably stage such a thing without external help (even the colonizers acted with help) - how that expands into modernity. Cuba answers this by simply providing the tools to the people
Because "true" democracy, certainly not bourgeoisie democracy, is wrested by the people, for the people, and constantly agitated for and upheld by the people. That absolutely includes the question of violence and must itself by encouraged by a people's democracy
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