Imagine you are a French factory worker in the year 1910. Would you be in favor of a war with Germany? Why or why not? Make reference to specific historical events that happened in Europe in the last 50 years.
If I was a French factory worker in the year 1910, I would not be in favor of a war with Germany. A war with Germany would mean there would have to be a draft on behalf of soldiers to fight in the front line of this war. When they draft men on behalf of the military, they look on behalf of the lower class guys like me because of the fact that the capitalists that posses the factories we lower class guys work on behalf of honestly wouldn’t be fighting in the war. I mean sure we have better, faster as well as conveniently smaller weapons thanks to the Industrial Revolution, but I’m 100% against war. I wouldn’t have it in me to be planted in the center of pure gun-shots & blood. Being in war with another country causes demand to rise, which equals more work on behalf of my fellow factory worker friends. I seriously wouldn’t desire to go through what the young men of Napolean’s Grand Armee had to during his numerous strenuous wars. I would rather just retain working on behalf of barely any money than die in a war (even though it does sound very honorable).
1910: Armaments factory in England
|