Karl Bürkli, “Democratisation of Our Army System”, Zurich, 1897. (Lecture delivered November 15, 1896, at the Winterthur Social-Democratic Party Congress.)
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He says at the very outset (p. 5) that the bourgeoisie (of Switzerland) “has only achieved an inferior version of monarchical militarism; it has incessantly striven to imitate foreign models, implant a sort of neo-Prussianism”. |
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