[lbo-talk] NPR on California's Prison Crisis

benjamin rosenzweig lumpnboy at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 14 18:36:03 PDT 2009


Not least given the 'economic draft' which effectively persists in a country which combines such a minimal and crappy welfare system with racialized inequality, the absence of a draft doesn't mean that resistance has been erased within the US armed forces. After all, it may be a volunteer army, but that doesn't mean you can just quit any time you want, so people do find themselves faced with the prospect of fighting wars etcetera even if they are against them in principle and/or just really don't want to. See, for example, the people at Courge to Resist, and this in particular, for recent examples. Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] NPR on California's Prison Crisis To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Message-ID:     <bee7ff780908141332g57dcfcb0g367b71754ad702e5 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Carrol Cox wrote:
>Under some conditons of high social tension members of the armed
forces can be expected to come over to our side ***

Yes there is a fundamental difference between police and military forces.  In Vietnam there was an explosion of subversion within the armed forces, but hasn't the change to the "all-volunteer" professional army changed this?

Evangelical and other far-right forces have (counter hegemonic?) influence in large swathes of the armed forces.

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