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