Bernstein and popular militias

[Die Neue Zeit]

“Failing to call for workers’ self-defence and a popular militia to replace the standing armed forces, the police included, almost means defeat before the battle has even started. Let us note that even Eduard Bernstein, father of revisionism in the Second International, demanded a popular militia.” (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/716/fromcadets.html)



Out of curiosity, where in his works did the reformist Bernstein "uncharacteristically" call for popular militias?

[Tower of Bebel]

Apart from the German text on MIA I sent to you a few weeks ago?

[Die Neue Zeit]

I didn't find any musings in Evolutionary Socialism on militias, so please quote if I've overlooked something. :(

Was this it?

http://www.marx.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1895/cromwell/07-democracy.htm


It is interesting to note that during the debates between Cromwell and the Levellers universal suffrage was condemned on the ground that it would lead to anarchy, and in a Cromwellian newspaper the Levellers were called “these Switzerizing anarchists”.

The Agreement advocated annual Parliaments, the members of which were not to be eligible to sit in the two succeeding Parliaments. Salaried State officials were not to be eligible, and lawyers sitting in Parliament were not to practise. No coercive laws respecting religion should be enacted, and there should be no religious tests. Each parish should elect its own minister, but no one should be compelled to contribute towards his maintenance. A conscientious objection to military or naval service should be respected. All tolls, taxes, and tithes should be abolished within a short fixed period, and be replaced by a direct tax on every pound’s worth of real and personal estate. In his pamphlet, England’s New Chains Discovered, which is by way of a commentary on the Agreement, Lilburne is plain-spoken on the subject of indirect taxes. The Levellers, states this pamphlet, had “resolved to take away all known and burdensome grievances”, of which the pamphlet enumerated “Tythes, that great oppression of the counties, Industry and hindrance of tillage; excise and customs, those secret thieves and robbers, drainers of the poor and middle sort of people, and the greatest obstructors of trade, surmounting all the prejudices of ship money, patents and projects before this Parliament. Also to take away all monopolizing companies of merchants, the hindrances and decayers of clothing and clothworking, dying and the like useful professions ... They have also in mind to provide work and comfortable maintenance for all sorts of poor, aged, and impotent people.” All privileges were to be cancelled, and a national militia was to take the place of the standing Army, the decision as to war resting with Parliament. Each county should select its own officials; the laws were to be printed in English, and all complaints and prosecutions to be dealt with only by a sworn jury of twelve citizens of the district. Measures should be taken to ensure work and decent maintenance to the poor, the aged, and the sick.

The demands set out above constitute a remarkable programme for the time in which it was formulated.

[I'll try to use his quote to start my section on militias, since the 1912 Kautsky quote sounds meh. :D ]