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"Snitching, the highest stage of Marxism." by darkcalling
Honestly, they're not totally wrong. The revolution does need to be protected. As I argued above, it's more a matter of emphasis.
I agree. You can protect it by educating each new generation of people, among other things. Both the Soviet Union and DDR had snitches reporting people to the state, and in both the communist party failed to protect the revolution. Do you want to argue they failed because people didn't snitch enough? That'd be interesting to see.
Now you get into some very difficult historical territory. The collapse of socialism in the USSR and Europe is a complicated phenomena, and probably no one fully understands it yet.
But yes, I agree it's generally better to educate people in tandem with raising their living standards. All I want is to point out that there's nuance, and sometimes ugly things have to be done. The situation that Swinging6917 described is not one of those times.