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

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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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Quote #1 on Political Struggle Quotes >> War and Patriotism

“The moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed themselves. They then, with the exception of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be regimented, coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives, and turned into a solid manufactory of destruction toward whatever other people may have, in the appointed scheme of things, come within the range of the Government's disapprobation. The citizen throws off his contempt and indifference to Government, identifies himself with its purposes, revives all his military memories and symbols, and the State once more walks, an august presence, through the imaginations of men. Patriotism becomes the dominant feeling, and produces immediately that intense and hopeless confusion between the relations which the individual bears and should bear toward the society of which he is a part.”

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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