“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that it will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.”
Emma Goldman, 1908
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http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/emma_goldman_patriotism.html http://war.linefeed.org/propaganda/pip.pdf (via suburbananarchist) [ADDED SIDE NOTE:On good days, fusionism gives me flatulence at the very least. Reading Roads to Dominion by Sarah Diamond has been marked by gut feelings of doom that begin as indigestion and morphs into a crescendo of… well, I’m not done reading it yet] |
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