• iridaniotter [she/her]
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    5 hours ago

    Remember that the Chinese Red Army was mostly made up of Nationalist deserters.

    Well yes, but as socialists we should be strategically in support of universal conscription. A volunteer army is not likely to produce these results...

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      4 hours ago

      Especially a volunteer army that is essentially a bunch of mercenaries serving to get college or $50,000 or whatever. A lot of them aren’t even signing up because of some misguided patriotism or whatever at this point.