"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
Submitted by Ali Hassan Massoud on Mon, 2007-01-22 17:00
"The king's army and police were not reliable protectors of...the powerful merchants, who already operated the business of the empire, took measures to put an end to the instability; they took the politics in hand as well. They could have hired private armies, and they often did....The main virtue of a national armed force is that it guarantees that a patriotic servant will war alongside his own boss against an enemy boss's servant." A classic essay by the late Fredy Perlman. (1985)
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