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RE: Being a Soldier - An Inside Look
Great comment and even better question!! I'd like to start off by answering that not everyone was born into the same class. People join the military for all sorts of different reasons. There are people of all different classes in the Army. I know a middle eastern prince who was stationed here with me as well as people who came from nothing. You say class traitor, I say I'm just trying to move up in life and I happen to be doing that by serving my country. If that makes you mad, then I guess I feel bad for you.
" by serving my country. "
you mean serving the rich, nothing you are doing is helping your country. Well maybe bringing more of the fruits of imperialism. How does it feel risking your life so the rich can get richer? How does it feel to be the main cog in a system which kills 20 million a year through poverty alone?
If you don't like what I do, then whatever man. I made this so people would know a little more about me and have an insight into what it's like to be a soldier. That's me and if you don't like it tough shit brother. Doesn't hurt my feelings one bit. You've got the right to your opinion.
Did I say I agree with everything the US or the military does? Nah, I can't find that anywhere in my post actually. I have the right to my opinion as an individual, too. What would you like to see happen to the military? It just not exist? The entire world be one big, happy playground? If the US didn't have a military poverty wouldn't exist? Alright, sounds good to me. If I didn't have this job, I would be one of those in poverty.
"Did I say I agree with everything the US or the military does? Nah, I can't find that anywhere in my post actually. I have the right to my opinion as an individual, too. What would you like to see happen to the military? It just not exist? The entire world be one big, happy playground? If the US didn't have a military poverty wouldn't exist? Alright, sounds good to me. If I didn't have this job, I would be one of those in poverty."
You exist as a tool to uphold capitalism the system that creates this poverty. Without you the system would change to mutualism or socialism, which has proven to essentially erase poverty. Without destroying every military state socialism is an example of the erasure of poverty, look at the ussr.
To each their own.
to each based on how much control they have over the means of production and the workers*
There, made a special capitalist version for you.
To each their own describes mutualism
"Alright, sounds good to me. If I didn't have this job, I would be one of those in poverty."
"If I didn't take food from that starving child, I would be starving myself" The soldier says in front of the store with food rotting on its shelves for the extra bit of profit and then thinks. "Good thing I fought for freedom, otherwise that child could have stolen food from the store"
What are you even talking about?
20 million die a year of poverty while there is enough to feed them. The only thing keeping them from food is the money to buy it. Money is a social construct, and it must be enforced to exist. You are the one who enforces it. You are the one who keeps the starving child from food because of legal fictions.