Marks i Engels o klasno-revolucionarnom i opštem vojnostrategijskom sadržaju i karatkeru naoružanog naroda
Marx and Engels on the Class-Revolutionary and General Military-Strategic Contents and Character of an Armed Populace

Summary/Abstract: Marks and Engels conceived their basic theoretic views of the character of socialist societal relationships, and also of military organisation, with the assumption that the penetration of socialism would take place in the most highly developed countries. In their works, by theoretically explaining the societal-class nature of the military organisation of the working class, that is, of the socialist social community, they anticipated its pan-social and certain essential military-strategic characteristics. That section of their theoretic activity which peppers many of their works is most often called the concept of an armed populace by the founders of Marxism. Distancing themselves from anarchistic, utopian and bourgeois-liberalistic conceptions, Marx and Engels stressed the essential role of the revolutionary working class state and the consciously organised socialistic forces in giving meaning to. stimulating and directing the autochthonous will of the working class in the process of organisation and development of a united military organisation and a united doctrine of armed combat. In regard to the character of human relationships in the military organisation of the working class, they pointed to the necessity for a conscious military discipline and subordinations in its running and command. The founders of Marxism rejected the thesis of an armed populace as a military organisation which transcends class, an absolute spontaneity and factionalism as a principle of its organisation and of a general, a priori, given form of its concrete manifestation for all times and conditions.

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