Article from Proletarian Revolution No. 78 (Fall 2006)


In Defense of Bolshevik Military Policy:
Once Again on Conscription

Outline

Top of article

War and Revolution

Revolutionary Military Policy

The Marxist Tradition and Its Opponents

What It Means to Prefer a Draft

What Is the IG’s Position?

1. Preference for a Mercenary Army

2. Pseudo-Militant Pacifism

3. Against a Draft—Until There Is One

Engels on Conscription

Lenin on Conscription

The Proletarian Military Policy and Lenin�s Demands on the State

The PMP and the Transitional Program

Reality of the PMP

Lessons of the Russian Revolution

Order No. 1

From the Third to the Fourth International

Trotsky Proposes…

…The SWP Disposes…

… and Cannon Exposes

The True Heirs of Max Shachtman

Class-Free Marxism

The PMP Today and Tomorrow

Further reading


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