We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.

"Get Organized!" (November 29,), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 153.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

Half the military would be out on a medical discharge within a month

The US military literally doesn't have the BACK to pull it off, hundreds of thousands of spines are barely hanging on to begin with