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‘I hate soldiers. I hate to see a man with a bayonet fixed on his rifle, who can order me off the street’

Posted on 24/07/200808/02/2021 By 3arabawy

John Reed, “The Worst Thing in Europe,” The Masses, March 1915:

I hate soldiers. I hate to see a man with a bayonet fixed on his rifle, who can order me off the street. I hate to belong to an organization that is proud of obeying a caste of superior beings, that is proud of killing free ideas, so that it may the more efficiently kill human beings in cold blood. They will tell you that a conscript army is Democratic, because everybody has to serve; but they won’t tell you that military service plants in your blood the germ of blind obedience, of blind irresponsibility, that it produces one class of Commanders in your state and your industries; and accustoms you to do what they tell you even in time of peace.

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