Capitolo 46
and he/she let the taxes of my fellow citizens pay to sustain them." To other
times it is the Nationalism exasperated pure. He/she wants to say, the country of "_My_ against other
countries! The army of _My_ and military harbor against the other fighters! Right _My_
annex non busy territory on the equal right of all the other people!
_My_ motorizes to oppress all the nationalities weakest, all the inferior runs!" It
_never_ intends anything good. For if a cause is alone, as Ireland, or
once Italy, then 'the tis the duty of the good man of sposarsilo with heat,
both it his/her really or another. And if a cause is bad, then 'the tis the good one
the duty of man of opporrlo tooth and to nail, disrespectful of Your
"Patriotism." True, a good man will feel more sensitively him anxious that
justice should be served as the particular State of which he happens
him to be a member that from some other, because he is partly
responsible for the social action; but then, people that feel deeply
this joint the moral responsibility of all the citizens is not praised as
patriots but it insulted as antipatriotic. To exhort that our his/her own country owes
strive with all of his/her strength to be best, taller, purer, more noble, juster
what the other countries around him--the only kind of value of Patriotism a
brass farthing in the eyes of a straight man--you/he/she is explained from more men both
bad and foolish.
Patriotism, is then the collective or national form of the Monopolist
Instincts. And as all that Instincts, it is a relic of the savageness,
what now the man of the Future one is busy in out-living.
Ownership is the next form. What, on his a lot of face, it is a more coward and
more sordid. For Patriotism at least you/he/she can place application to some
the expansiveness over individual and mere interest; while you are stopping of ownership
dead short to the limits of narrowest. Don't be "Us against the world!"
but "me against my fellow citizens!" It is the end result of the
industrial war in his/her more horrendous avatar. You look as it slashes the fair