SIGNIFICANCE OF COMPULSORY SERVICE.

Universal Compulsory Service is not a Political Accident, but the Furthest Limit of the Contradiction Inherent in the Social Conception of Life — Origin of Authority in Society — Basis of Authority is Physical Violence — To be Able to Perform its Acts of Violence Authority Needs a Special Organization — The Army — Authority, that is, Violence, is the Principle which is Destroying the Social Conception of Life — Attitude of Authority to the Masses, that is, Attitude of Government to Working Oppressed Classes — Governments Try to Foster in Working Classes the Idea that State Force is Necessary to Defend Them from External Enemies — But the Army is Principally Needed to Preserve Government from its own Subjects — The Working Classes — Speech of M.