ABSTRACT
The militarism was coined to indicate, with controversial intentions, the centrality of the military institutions and their weight on the economy and society. Democratic and Socialist criticism of militarism grew in Germany, particularly where militarism assumed a highly pervasive and prevaricating form, where the army transformations combined both an aggressive foreign policy and frequent and disproportionate use of military violence to suppress uprisings and the demands of the people. The spirit of militarism also affected the German government and state administration. The militarism of Wilhelmine Germany also drew criticism from significant fringes of the feminist movement. In regard to Italian Socialist anti-militarism, it is worth at least mentioning the periodical run by Ezio Bartalini La Pace. Periodico quindicinale antimilitarista, which came out in Genoa from August 1903 and soon had the formal approval of the Genoese leadership of the Socialist Party. Jan Gotlib Bloch argued against militarism and war, taking up the theme of their obsolescence.
