“Research clearly shows that compulsory military service promotes nationalism and xenophobia. So one may call for the return of conscription only if one believes that what Poland is sorely lacking today is more nationalism.” Our founder, Ian Golan, argues against the return of conscription in a new piece for Krytyka Polityczna, Poland’s largest left-wing outlet. […]

Conscription is an explicit usurpation by the state of the power to send you against your will into the fire of enemy machine guns.