Nationalism, Patriotism, and Libertarianism . . .

Started by redcliffsw, May 12, 2016, 06:41:25 AM

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And now a word about "patriotism": this concept has been used as a bludgeon against opponents of every war in American history, and is trotted out to smear government critics as "unpatriotic," if not outright traitors. Such expressions of "patriotism" as the Pledge of Allegiance (authored by a socialist), and the odious maxim "My country right or wrong," are nothing more than state-worship, the very opposite of true nationalism in the American sense.
-Justin Raimondo

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http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/05/10/nationalism-patriotism-libertarianism/




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