Article from Proletarian Revolution No. 78 (Fall 2006)
In Defense of Bolshevik Military Policy:
Once Again on ConscriptionOutline
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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