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 both the elementary schools and the higher faculties everywhere serve the same social order, the same class, which, in this case, means that the schools serve the bankers, the bourgeoisie, the landed gentry.

The same thing may and must be said of the army. Many members of the army, many really cultured and well-informed men among the commanding officers, are to this day profoundly convinced that the army should stand outside of politics. The idea has permeated their very flesh and blood. Nevertheless there never was a greater mistake than this. Never for one instant has any army stood outside of politics; ever since the existence of armies founded on the principle of universal military service, they have been used to serve a definite political aim, possibly not always themselves conscious of the fact.

Under the Tsars, in the days of serfdom, in 18489, when the army was sent to choke the life out of the Hungarian revolution, did it not then carry out a definite political design? The serf-soldiers, when taken to Hungary, possibly did not realize this; in fact they surely did not. It may be that the generals and officers in command of the serf army did not all understand what policy they were serving, or, possibly even the words „politics“, „policy“. And yet that army in 1849 was playing a well