Toy Soldiers

Everyone knows a few of them. You know, someone who poses in militant clothing and openly displays their weaponry to everyone. This type rarely seems to be in an actual organization with a program. Usually, they rally behind causes that are essentially just a logo or an idea without working actively in and belonging to an actual organization that has any hopes of rivaling the empire. They tend to place emphasis on being armed, which is important but far from beneficial. Without political education this is far from optimal uneducated and untrained people with firearms is just unsafe. There’s already 3 guns per person in the so called u.s. Without constant political education all you will have is a bunch of idiots with guns. The 2a march in Tulsa was a good example where somebody had accidentally discharged a firearm. Clearly that was lack of training.

“Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal”.
Thomas Sankara

The superficial ego based expression of the toy soldier broadcasts to colonists and letting them know where weapons are and who to come after first. All the while they accuse those who do not brandish weapons of not having weapons. They accuse those who are more intelligent than them of having nothing material to offer. In this way the toy soldier becomes an unwitting informant. Thru a process of political education and actually being deeply involved in actual organizing i have grown to have more respect for someone who can be consistent and hold it down on a committee or any kind of benevolent program such as childcare or growing food for the organization than I do for the poser toy soldier type. Im not undermining the need for warrior prowess I’m merely suggesting that in a real organization our babysitters, teachers and gardeners might actually have a higher level of warrior prowess than the toy soldier. This is not cosplay. We are not l.a.r.ping. If you just want to play dress up try comicon, or cyber punk. This is revolution. Do better. You absolutely must be in a hardcore anticolonial organization doing the DAILY tasks needed to be done. Understand the toy soldier when you see one. Know them for what they really are, paper tigers. Yall just frontin.