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Show 59 relative ease with which members of one class moved to another in American society and the comforts afforded workers by post industrialism precluded a Marxist revolution in the United States, The Ally staff reasoned. Furthermore, they argued, ranks of the armed services could not be envisioned. the enlisted organized as the Marxists Although The Ally staff agreed that a caste system existed within the military, revolutionary situation. ing AWOF GI's, this not seen as a was Based upon potentially previous experience with help Smith concluded that the transient nature of the military social condition and the ability of commanders to immedi ately isolate potentially effective organizers worked against the Marxist strategy. The desire of draftees to be done with their military experience as soon as possible, Smith said, made the enlisted ranks exceptionally unorganizable and an unreliable basis for revolution throughout the larger society. In addition, The Ally staff felt the Marxist strategy incorrectly excluded all missioned and non-commissioned officers from GI .movement, participation in the despite significant peer group similarities shared by these elements with enlisted What com emerged from The faction of the GI movement personnel. Ally's disagreement with the Marxist was a political orientation and propa ganda strategy based upon an interpretation of the United States Constitution and he civil rights of American servicemen. The Ally argued, Smith explained, ,that the Vietnam War was being fought in violation of the Constitution and that the civil rights of military personnel were daily abridged by the undemocratic processes inher ent within the U.S. military hierarchy. By providing information |
