Why haven’t socialist states formed industrial armies? From the early twenties until mid to late thirties the entire population, male and female should be mobilized for mandatory labor duty. At the end of their service, they have paid their duty to the state and are exempt from work barring periodic call-ups for emergencies in production.
Sure you can. Working hours are already too long, and without the need (or existence) of capitalists to extend the working day in order to squeeze as much surplus from you as possible, the work day need not be longer than 4 or 5 hours a day, depending on the job.
I see no reason why people can’t work short days and attend school simultaneously, and even for especially gifted students more dedicated to university studies in lieu of their labor-service, would be subject to periodic mobilizations, not to mention the service they would pay after their higher education. Here begins the gradual abolition of mental and physical labor.
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Pregnant women over age 35 are considered to be of advanced maternal age and the sperm of men over 40 is increasingly likely to be defective. Do you want the population to collapse?
Only conscript men into the labour army then
Did I say that people can’t form relationships when conscripted? If a woman gets pregnant and has a baby, of course she’d be exempted from service for some period of time.
I think a better solution is to have different levels of mobilization depending on age group. It's exciting to travel around the country with people your age to work on projects when you're 18, but eventually people want to settle down. However, there are still all sorts of local projects that people can be asked to contribute to as they get older. So maybe
You didn't say "can't," but in practice it probably will be difficult for people to have children under those circumstances, if a labor army is anything like an actual army.
That’s a good point. Obviously, I don’t know since it doesn’t exist, but you’re probably right. I can’t imagine a large mobilization of entire age cohorts to proceed without rigorous, military-like organization. The key here is probably the age-range selected for service. The length would depend on 1) there being enough time to train adequately each conscripted laborer into a role fitting their aptitude and 2) the minimum amount of people that can be mobilized to run the economy
The entire population is already mobilized for mandatory labor duty, literally what are you talking about?
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This is still that same old "sacrifice the youth so old people can have a nice life" mentality. I'd much rather have that 15 years worth of labor spread over a lifetime and reduce the rate of wear on my body, while enjoying the benefits of socialism at the same time. If you have workers playing different roles based on age, you are de facto introducing classes, since the two populations will have different interests. Once people retire they will want to push the young'uns to work harder. The idea that you do service and then earn a retirement is just an adaptation of protestant work ethic and afterlife ideology anyway.