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	The Proletarian Military Policy Revisited
		Basically the PMP was the application of the transitional programme to a period of universal war and militarism as the concept applied to the struggle for the hearts and minds, as well as the actions, of the millions of people who were drafted, or were going to be drafted, into the military machine.
		Nevertheless, the Proletarian Military Policy was the basic cornerstone of the transitional programme during the war.
		This policy on the part of Cannon and Co of trying to take the sting out of the criticism of their policy without really altering anything was the hallmark of the period.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /backiss/Vol1/No3/LevyPMP.html (11143 words)

	Neoconservatism’s Liberal Legacy by Tod Lindberg - Policy Review, No. 127 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Instead of settling policy matters by having ideologues argue over principle — and it is probably no accident that conservatives were losing those arguments — social scientists would step in to investigate whether social programs were delivering on the promises advocates made on their behalf and would test for other, perhaps unanticipated, effects.
		This policy would necessarily entail support for certain unsavory authoritarian governments in their efforts to combat local communist insurrections (which, inevitably, traveled under the flag of national liberation movements).
		The perceived deficiencies abroad were various, from socialist economic policies said to have brought on stagnation, to the tenuousness of democracy, to the very fact that the rest of the free world could not (and perhaps would not try to) defend itself in the absence of the United States.
	www.policyreview.org /oct04/lindberg.html (8181 words)

	Policy Resolution
		Their adherence to the British legacy of policy of imposition, the reversal of the policy of Congress from relatively strong provinces to strong centre towards over centralised trend of state structure, hindered the natural growth of unity and fusion.
		The central objective of the agrarian policy of the party of the proletariat would be to intensify the class struggle in the countryside: between old and new type of landlords and kulaks and their state on the one hand and the rural proletariat and the vast mass of poor peasantry on the other.
		Rather the entire thrust of the agrarian policy, in this context, would be intensification of class struggles in the countryside between the poor and landless peasants on the one hand and the agrarian-rural bourgeoisie and the state which channelises all the resources into their hands, on the other.
	www.cpiml.org /pgs/policyresolution/policy.htm (8831 words)

	The Militant - October 15, 2001 -- Washington's third militarization drive
		We need a policy for workers and farmers in the armed forces--an approach aimed at deepening working-class consciousness and advancing the fight of workers and farmers to defend their constitutional rights and class interests as they face the class brutalities of the officer corps, racism, and restrictions on political dissent.
		This is what the Socialist Workers Party has always referred to as our proletarian military policy, a perspective for the working class in response to the militarization policies of the capitalist rulers in the imperialist epoch.
		A proletarian military policy--a policy of the working class to confront imperialist militarism--is thus an integral part of working-class strategy as workers and farmers move toward establishing their own government....
	www.themilitant.com /2001/6539/653951.html (1743 words)

	Leon Trotsky: The Revolution Betrayed (8. Foreign Policy and the Army)
		The obligation to military from the side of the Soviets is, according to the treaty, unconditional; French help, on the contrary, is conditioned upon a preliminary agreement with England and Italy, which opens an unlimited field for hostile machinations against the Soviet Union.
		The banner of “proletarian culture” was raised by Stalin and Bukharin, to be sure without visible results, in the course of the seven-year period between the proclamation of “socialism in one country” and of the abolition of all classes (1924-31).
		A military defeat threatens the social basis of the Soviet Union for the same reason that these bases require in peaceful times a bureaucracy and a monopoly of foreign trade – that is, because of their weakness.
	www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1936-rev/ch08.htm (12885 words)

	Levy: Proletarian Military Policy Revisited
		It was the transitional programme during wartime with its own particular characteristics – universal militarism, etc. The concept was linked to the question of power, whereas not one of the revolutionary leaders during the First World War linked their concepts to the question of power; at the very best they hoped for it.
		We know that revolutionary defeatism was basically a negative concept, whilst the Proletarian Military Policy was positive – each of them flowing from the concepts they had of the future.
		Although by 1942/3 the Proletarian Military Policy was put on the back burner by both the British and the American Trotskyist movement, it could have been relit with the ending of the war if the conditions making it applicable had emerged – but this never happened.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol1/no3/levypmp.html (11149 words)

	MILITARY LINE
		The military line is vital to our ideological, political, military, economic, and cultural work and permits us to differentiate between the proletarian military line and the bourgeois military line.
		Military plans were specified for the zones applying the tactics of encircling and striking the enemy's weak point.
		The correct disposition emanates from the just decision of the commander; all military plans must be based on the indispensable recognition and careful study of the situation of the enemy, the actual situation and the interrelationship of both.
	www.blythe.org /peru-pcp/docs_en/milline.htm (8449 words)

	George W. Bush's Foreign Policy
		Foreign policy is a continuation of domestic policy – and as Clauswitz explained, war is the continuation of politics by other means.
		In some cases, the military has even refused more of this or that item which is still being produced not out of military necessity, but for political and economic reasons.
		Foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy, and the attacks on the workers of the world are just an extension of the attacks on the American working class.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/usa/bush_foreign_policy_2001.asp (8819 words)

	Alex Callinicos: Trotskyism (Chap. 2.1)
		Having borne the brunt of the military struggle against Hitler, the USSR rapidly established itself as the dominant power in Eastern Europe through the presence of its armies and the progressive establishment of one-party Communist regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the other Soviet occupied states.
		If the proletarian revolution can be carried Out not necessarily through the activity of the working class itself but by a state bureaucracy, then the Russian revolution would inevitably be the exception while the “Bismarckian” path would be the rule.
		If a proletarian revolution can be carried out without an independent revolutionary leadership there is no reason at all for this leadership to appear.
	www.marxists.de /trotism/callinicos/2-1_crisis.htm (1612 words)

	History of US foreign policy since World War II \| International Communist Current
		In the 1952 election campaign, conservative Republicans, it is true, criticized Truman’s policy of containment, as a concession to “communism,” a form of appeasement that tacitly or explicitly accepted Russian domination of countries already under their influence or control and only opposed the spread of Russian imperialism to new countries.
		The overarching continuity in American imperialist policy is a reflection of the central characteristic of state capitalist policy-making in decadent capitalism, where the permanent bureaucracy, not the legislature, is the locus of political power.
		This is of course not to deny that sometimes that are significant policy divergences within the bourgeoisie in the US that stand in sharp contrast to the overall unity.
	en.internationalism.org /ir/113_us_policy.html (5379 words)

	Vietnam: the 'Working-Class War'
		He details the lives of American soldiers in Vietnam: their class backgrounds, military training, war experiences (both as victims and victimizers), as well as the post-combat attempts of survivors to deal with what they lived through.
		Proletarian communists say that revolutionary workers should go to war with their class brothers and take the only possible course for defending our class: turning the imperialist war into a class war.
		To this end, revolutionaries help their fellow soldiers understand the imperialist and class nature of the army and the war; we raise, for example, the demand that the officers should be chosen by the soldiers themselves, so that workers are not turned into cannon fodder by racist, incompetent and anti-working class officers.
	www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/VietnamPR45.html (3504 words)

	COFI Political Resolutionl
		Proletarians with the most advanced consciousness are driven by the class struggle to form their own vanguard communist party, the key to the successful seizure of state power and the formation of workers’ states.
		As the crisis deepens, and the proletarian struggle rises, we expect that the centrist forces will polarize, and those elements who are searching for a genuine working-class outlook will crystallize and emerge out of the morass.
		A proletarian revolution in one country must spread especially to the proletariat of the dominant, economically-advanced, imperialist powers, if the workers’ state is to be able to develop into socialism and communism.
	www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/polres.html (9049 words)

	PERRspectives Blog: Foreign Policy Archives
		In March 2001, President Bush undermined the budding "Sunshine Policy" of South Korea by adamantly refusing to engage with the North.
		Wolfowitz, the former Defense Undersecretary, was the principal advocate of unilateralism in American foreign policy.
		The United States is fighting Al Qaeda, an organization with political and military goals, one that declared war on America in 1996 and attacked its homeland in 2001.
	www.perrspectives.com /blog/archives/cat_foreign_policy.htm (11772 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
		A term coined by Joseph V. Stalin to indicate that the Soviet Union was surrounded by capitalist states pursuing political, military, and economic policies aimed at weakening and destroying the Soviet regime.
		A Mongol military force of about 30,000 to 40,000 troops mounted on horseback that was roughly equivalent in size to a modern army corps.
		A local military administrative agency that prepares and executes plans for military mobilization, maintains records on military manpower and economic resources available to the armed forces, provides premilitary training, drafts men for military service, organizes reserves for training, and performs other military functions at the local level.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.html (9351 words)

	From LRP 12 April 2004
		A draft in that case might be critical to an imperialist military victory.
		If a generally defeatist movement existed, in actively siding with the military defeat of imperialism it would have to advocate that soldiers turn their guns around to bring it about.
		The proletarian military policy, as implemented by the Bolsheviks during the Russian upheavals of 1917 and described by Trotsky in the build-up to the Second World War, provides an indication of how that can be done.
	struggle.net /ALC/FromLRP20040412.htm (1922 words)

	British Trotskyism in the Second World War
		Our policy, the policy of the revolutionary proletariat towards the second imperialist war is a continuation of the policy elaborated during the last imperialist war, primarily under Lenin's leadership.
		The proletarian military policy was based on the conception that the capitalist class could not fight a real war against fascism.
		The military policy also included the election of officers by the soldiers, the training of officers by the trade unions, the need for a workers' militia, the establishment of committees in the armed forces, for the workers to be trained in arms, and so on.
	www.marxist.com /british-trotskyism-second-world-war2002-3.htm (6865 words)

	Class Struggle 33 June/July 2000
		The shoot to incapacitate policy which amounts to shoot to kill, is the subject of a review ordered by the Prime Minister’s Office, designed to determine if there is an alternative to the use of deadly force currently in practice.
		This is the policing policy of zero-tolerant neo-liberal regimes who take the line that crime is individually motivated and that even minor crimes against property, such as that of Steven Wallace, can be escalated by confrontational policing methods that justifies police killing the offenders.
		The tactic was for the revolutionaries to enter the military and to agitate for a civil war perspective, counterposing to the chauvinist, racist and authoritarian policies of the military, proletarian policies of antiracism, workers internationalism, and rank and file democracy against the officers.
	www.geocities.com /communistworker/cs33.html (15010 words)

	Comrades, I have been asked to make a presentation on the military strategy of the United Kingdom
		In particular, it is required of me to comment on Britain’s military capacity, why Britain is such a ‘running dog’ of the USA, its special role in Nato, and the political and military contradictions between UK and Germany.
		Second, the armed might of a country, in the final analysis, serves it to safeguard its economic system and economic strength, for the military policy of a country, like its foreign policy, is only an extension of its economic policy.
		The compulsion for the rationalisation/restructuring of the European defence industry is underlined by the fact that, while the combined EU military expenditure amounts to 60% of the USA’s, the EU is littered with a large number of armament manufacturers.
	www.wpb.be /icm/99en/sem_en99/C4GBSLPBrar-EN.htm (6341 words)

	How Trotsky and the Trotskyists Confronted the Second World War, Pierre Broué
		Our policy, the policy of the revolutionary proletariat towards the second imperialist world war, is a continuation of the policy elaborated during the last imperialist war, primarily under the leadership of Lenin.
		Over the next few months military directives caused the units to be dispersed, the rebels were punished by disciplinary training, and finally the subversive elements were weeded out and the officers who had been isolated were brought back into key positions.
		We cannot undertake here a wide-ranging study of the policies of the Trotskyists during the war, or compare them with the policies which Trotsky outlined on the eve of his death and of which his comrades were generally unaware at the time.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /backiss/Vol3/No4/Brouww2.html (10720 words)

	On the history of the Swedish Marxist-Leninist movement & the bankruptcy of Trotskyism
		That stems from their relativization of the question of leadership: it is not held to be too important to provide any guidance at workplaces and draw the advanced elements into communist activity, but quite sufficient to merely applaud the militancy that already exists.
		Actually, the counterrevolution couldn't be but "sliding", as the proletarian conquest of power and the seizure of bourgeois property by the workers' state merely is the starting point in creating a transitional economy.
		Daum relates in an ambivalent manner to the question of the laws-of-motion of capital under the workers' state: on the one hand, these are to be counteracted and superseded; while, on the other hand, he says that one of the tasks of the workers' state is to accumulate capital.
	home.flash.net /~comvoice/FRPevaluation.html (16906 words)

	Genesis of Pabloism
		Their advocacy of an entrist policy toward the European reformist parties was dismissed out of hand by the majority, which expected the workers to more or less spontaneously regroup under the Trotskyist banner.
		Germain restated the Marxist use of "transitional period" as the period between the victory of the revolution (the dictatorship of the proletariat) and the achievement of socialism (the classless society).
		With the capitulation of Germain, whose role in the preliminary conflicts over Pabloist policies is ambiguous but in whom the French appear to have placed some degree of confidence, the task of fighting Pabloism fell to the French PCI majority of Bleibtreu-Lambert and the American SWP.
	www.bolshevik.org /history/pabloism/gop.html (9258 words)

	Appeal to all the Comrades of the Chinese Communist Party
		It was then, in 1924, that the KMT began the policy of reorganization and alliance with Soviet Russia.
		We were very much persecuted by the KMT because in Hsiang~tao we criticized the curbing of the labor movement in the rear, and the compulsory collection of the military fund from the peasants for the use of the Northern Expedition.
		I proposed that we change from the policy of uprisings to a policy of winning and uniting the masses in their daily struggles.
	www.marxist.com /Asia/chen.html (6698 words)

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