[lbo-talk] The Draft: Further Thoughts

[Chris Doss]

In the Russian Empire, military service was a way for Jews to bypass the anti-Semitic laws that kept most of them in the Pale.

--- On Mon, 10/5/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> differently about military service (and therefore the
> draft), and that is that many oppressed groups fought for
> the right to give military service. That was the meaning of
> the Dreyfus trial, and the importance of Eleanor Roosevelt's
> project of getting black combat groups into the army. The
> right of women to fight alongside men has been ongoing, and
> most recently we have had the row over coming out in the
> military.
>