[lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft

[Mike Ballard]

As Wojtek points out, people who join the military have made a *choice* and
they bear responsibility for that choice. No excuses for anybody who chooses to
join the military.

Chuck
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"T'ain't necessarily so."

Reminds me of the argument which implies that the people in a
(bourgeois)democracy get the government they deserve.  This is way too much
emphasis on the autonomy of individual consciousness. 
I joined the military because I was socially taught that I had an obligation to
do so.  Not one person *who I could hear*, told me anything differnt, most
especially not those in positions of political authority. I can see now that it
was a mistake.  But, I couldn't see it then.  I couldn't see it because I had
been brought up in a certain milleau ("the idiocies of rural life") in a class
dominated society engaged in a "Cold War".  

Regards,
Mike B)

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