The Militia and Militarism

Luxemburg, Rosa
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/luxemburg/1899/02/26.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1899/02/26.htm
Year Published:  1899
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX7952

In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.

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