The ruling class prefers to have radicals in jail, rather than in the training camps mobilising the recruits against them. Moreover, at this stage, an escape from military service is unlikely to earn the respect of the unpoliticised masses. On the other hand there is much a revolutionary can contribute by accepting the draft:

• He gains familiarity with weapons and military craft and is able to learn about the military approach of his class enemy;
• He is able to carry out propaganda among the conscripts and the regular force. This is what is meant in point Four of the "Terms of Admission into the Communist International."
• "Persistent and systematic propaganda and agitation must be conducted in the armed forces, and Communist cells formed in every military unit... failure to engage in (this work) would be tantamount to a betrayal of their revolutionary duty and incompatible with membership in the Third International."
• (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 31, p206.) He has common experience with working class youth and gains contacts with them. He is able to see the bourgeois state working at first hand, and understand better the processes that the working class must endure all their lives. In this way the barriers between middle class radicals and workers can be broken down.
• He can continue the struggle in the army. Just because everyone wears a uniform it does not mean the class struggle has ended. He can mobilise and organise to end officer privileges, for freedom of speech, against racism, for democratic rights etc.