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albatrosss discovered 25 months ago
PATRIOTISM A MENACE TO LIBERTY
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls? Is it the place where we would listen to the music of the birds, and long to have wings to fly, even as they, to distant lands? Or the place where we would sit at mother's knee, enraptured by wonderful tales of great deeds and conquests? In short, is it love for the spot, every inch representing dear and precious recollections of a happy, joyous, and playful childhood?
If that were patriotism, few American men of today could be called upon to be patriotic, since the place of play has been turned into factory, mill, and mine, while deafening sounds of machinery have replaced the music of the birds. Nor can we longer hear the tales of great deeds, for the stories our mothers tell today are but those of sorrow, tears, and grief.
What, then, is patriotism? "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. Johnson.
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Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays.
Second Revised Edition.
New York & London: Mother Earth Publishing Association,
1911. pp. 133-150.
- losangelino rated 20 months ago
- I've been saying this for years... not many agree with it though. A plague on all nationalists and patriots! There is no justification for xenophobic attitudes, yet everyone has them to one degree or another. A flag is just that; a piece of coloured cloth. Nothing more!
- commerican rated 20 months ago
- Patriotism/nationalism, although an animal trait, are not good for modern human society. The world is too small and too delicate for glorified gorillas to go fucking it up.
