NOTEBOOK “ο” (“OMICRON”)

BÜRKLI, “DEMOCRATISATION OF OUR ARMY SYSTEM”

Karl Bürkli , “Democratisation of Our Army System”, Zurich, 1897. (Lecture delivered November 15, 1896, at the Winterthur Social-Democratic Party Congress.)

| He says at the very outset (p. 5) that the bourgeoisie (of Switzerland) “has only achieved an inferior version of monarchical militarism; it has incessantly striven to imitate foreign models, implant a sort of neo-Prussianism”. | |