Soldiers are often seen as willing agents of the state and class traitors much like cops. Revolutionary history and Marxist class analysis show otherwise. Enlisted soldiers are in fact workers in uniforms, and their radical potential is crucial to building a revolutionary movement.
This article is adapted from a speech delivered by a Firebrand member and Iraq War veteran at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell, organized by the Denver Communists. It describes his harrowing experiences in Iraq and how they led to a life of resistance against imperialism and capitalism.
United States government officials’ denunciations of the crimes of their enemies are hypocritical, white-washing a history and present in which the United States remains, to paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King, “the greatest purveyor of violence the world has ever known.”
Sharp divisions among revolutionary socialists The question of war has always been a key division among socialists. It divides reformist supporters of the capitalist state from revolutionary opponents of the capitalist state. Since the late 1800s, it has divided soft...