> I think it is > important to think of, for instance, the likely effects that the > maintenance of a gigantic standing army has had on American culture, male > socialization, etc. > I think that socialists, as a matter of principles, should object to a > gigantic and professional standing army, especially the US military with > its foreign bases all over the world, firstly because of the uses to which > it has been put, secondly because it misshapes many who are employed in it > (both when its ideological control succeeds and when it fails). > Yoshie state-making has had much to do with war-making, which has been a very male domain...so male domination of the political state has been closely related to militarism...Cynthia Enloe (I think), suggests that militarism requires excessive 'strength, bravery, and responsibility' to fulfill male social functions...Michael Hoover
