ANTIMILITARISM!!! BUT HOW???
Find practical proposals for antimilitarist organizing based on the ‘Battle Plan against War and War Preparation’ by Bart de Ligt.
Bart de Ligt was an anarchist, antimilitarist, syndicalist and scholar who dedicated his life to building a more just society. J/M.
“The collective opposition to war should be converted into Social Revolution (in this revolution it will likewise be the duty of all anti-militarists and radical pacifists to carry on their fight by such means only as may be worthy of man, by rising above any bourgeois, feudal or pre-feudal methods of violence, such methods being in strict contradiction to any rebirth of human civilization).” ~ Bart de Ligt.
de Ligt, Bart – Mobilisation against the war! (1934) (PDF download)
CONTENT:
Mobilisation against War! 1
Bart de Ligt (1934) 1
Introduction to the original Dutch edition (1934). 3
A. MOBILISATION AGAINST WAR! (‘100 Minutes Speech’) 4
1. Necessity of systematic struggle against war. 4
2. Voluntarism against coercion. 5
3. First things first. 7
4. The meaning of military conscription. 8
5. The nature of modern conscription. 10
6. Woman and the modern war. 11
7. International character of the war against war. 11
8. Don’t wait until the last moment! 12
9. To prevent is better than to cure. 14
10. Moral education. 14
11. Now or never! 16
12. The most vulnerable points of the war system. 16
13. Key industries and companies. 17
14. The intellectuals and the war. 19
15. Nationalized war industries? 20
16. No money, no war! 22
17. Our chances. 22
18. Technical fight against war [aka Sabotage]. 23
19. Necessity to decentralize the war against war. 24
20. Necessity to spread the Battle Plan against mobilization and war in all countries and all circles. 24
POSTCRIPT 25
B. BATTLE PLAN AGAINST WAR AND WAR PREPARATION 28
A. IN PEACE TIME 29
I. Direct INDIVIDUAL Action 29
II. Direct COLLECTIVE Action 32
1. THEORETICAL 32
2. PRACTICAL 33
B. IN THE TIME OF MOBILIZATION AND WAR 36
III. Direct INDIVIDUAL action to make war impossible. 36
IV. Direct COLLECTIVE action to make war impossible. 38
198 Methods of (Non/violent)Action 39
4 AXIS EXERCISE (developed by J/M) 45