Randolph Bourne (May 30, 1886 - December 22, 1918) on War and Society

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(1886 - 1918)

Anti-War and Anti-State Intellectual, Father of of the American Disabled Movement, Anarchist and Libertarian

: A progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living during World War I. His articles appeared in journals including The Seven Arts and The New Republic. (From: Wikipedia.org.)


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“...in general, the nation in wartime attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values culminating at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced through any other agency than war.... Other values, such as artistic creation, knowledge, reason, beauty, the enhancement of life, are instantly and almost unanimously sacrificed, and the significant classes who have constituted themselves the amateur agents of the State are engaged not only in sacrificing these values for themselves but in coercing all other persons into sacrificing them.”

Source: "War is the Health of the State," by Randolph Bourne, 1918.

"War is the Health of the State," by Randolph Bourne, 1918.

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