Against Nationalism

Extracts

• “The nation is a smokescreen, a fantasy which hides the struggle between classes which exists within and across them.”

• “For us, as revolutionaries, meaningful action is whatever increases the confidence, autonomy, initiative, participation, solidarity, egalitarian tendencies and self-activity of the masses, and whatever assists in their demystification. Sterile and harmful action is whatever reinforces the passivity of the masses, their apathy, cynicism, differentiation through hierarchy, alienation, reliance on others to do things for them, and the degree to which they can therefore be manipulated by others, even those acting on their behalf.”

• ‘the earth is not a dead thing you can claim’