he hated Nazism, but he was drafted and those who refused the draft were sent to concentration camps. Thus he had no choice but to go to the front against the soviets, where he sabatoged his platoons machine gun Then surrendered without resistance.

This is a True story according to his diary.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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    3 years ago

    Bingo. Current communist strategies on the question of the modern soldier don't revolve around attempting to organize soldier councils and committing outright mutiny. The conditions that lead to those decisions do not match the conditions of today. The drawn pool of the soldiery is too shallow and concentrated for any socialist seeds to sprout.

    Therefore the next best goal, knowing that it is impossible to win a plurality of the soldiers to the workers side is to outright undermine the martial unity that they are indoctrinated with through their training. Tearing down the illusion of legitimacy that the government weaves into its martial projects through education and agitprop to ensure that all but the most blindly zealous soldier knows they're not fighting for any of the American ideals that they were told from birth that soldiers sacrifice themselves to defend then having organizations disseminate the necessary information for troops to know their legal protections and rights to either not participate in whatever unjust imperial project uncle Sam wants to spend their blood on or outright leave the military without having to risk the legal backlash that comes from desertion.

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Therefore the next best goal, knowing that it is impossible to win a plurality of the soldiers to the workers side is to outright undermine the martial unity that they are indoctrinated with through their training. Tearing down the illusion of legitimacy that the government weaves into its martial projects through education and agitprop to ensure that all but the most blindly zealous soldier knows they’re not fighting for any of the American ideals that they were told from birth that soldiers sacrifice themselves to defend then having organizations disseminate the necessary information for troops to know their legal protections and rights to either not participate in whatever unjust imperial project uncle Sam wants to spend their blood on or outright leave the military without having to risk the legal backlash that comes from desertion.

      :this:

      My thoughts exactly. This is absolutely the way to go imo:

      1. Severely undermine the image of the US and what it represents to ordinary people
      2. Use this to actively harm military recruitment efforts, especially on social media
      3. Provide tools and info for active duty troops to push back against the command structure and to assist in getting themselves discharged if possible

      Related, I had an idea for a vehicle for this. A tiktok/youtube called something like "USA Facts" that gives quick but thorough overviews of various US/CIA atrocities. You could also throw in additional material designed with soldiers or prospective soldiers as the target audience, talking about unlawful medical experiments on soldiers, high suicide rates in the military, chronic homelessness with veterans, politicians' plans to gut the VA, etc. with the general message of "recruiters are full of shit and your government doesn't give a fuck about you so joining is a terrible idea". If possible, it would be nice to be able to manipulate the algorithm so that the content shows up alongside "patriotic" and recruitment bullshit. Dunno if this is good idea or not but I'd love to hear feedback if anyone has any.

        • pooh [she/her, any]
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          3 years ago

          I'd love to do something like this, but I have zero video editing skills and probably not a great grip on social media use/opsec. I could definitely do research on topics and come up with a good outline of the content for each, though.

      • slugbait666 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I don't use tiktok, but I love imagining a viral "troll a military recruiter" tiktok challenge, where people film themselves talking shit to recruiters lol