Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven: professor, Columbia University School of Social Work; professor, Graduate Center, CUNY. (City University of New York) (125th Anniversary Issue: Patriotism)
Nation, The, July, 1991 by Cloward, Richard A.; Piven, Frances Fox
WE TAKE PATRIOTISM TO MEAN LOVE OF NATION and the loyalty that follows. My country right or wrong. Even as an abstract idea, it is hard to see how thinking people justify blind loyalty. And considered historically, patriotism is plainly dangerous, helping to unleash military rampages in the name of nation and obliterating the essential democratic capacity to assess concrete and particular interests.
The ubiquitous loyalty to nation-state is puzzling. How is it that people become passionately devoted to the abstraction of the state and its symbols? Propaganda could not be the whole of it. Perhaps some loyalties are virtually natural to the human condition, such as the attachments most feel for kin and community. And perhaps nationalistic propaganda...
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