Submitted by victoria1985 on April 4, 2008

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“What Is Patriotism?”

“What is Patriotism?”
Emma Goldman

In “What is Patriotism?”, Emma Goldman, an anarchist, activist, and feminist icon, argued about the difference between the idealistic meaning of patriotism and the reality of it. If we ask what patriotism is, people may say that it is the love for the native land. They might also describe a paradise where all their dreams and desires come true. However, according to Goldman, if that was the truth, a lot of American men would become non patriotic, because they have destroyed the nature of their land to turn it into big cities with big factories (75).
Patriotism is used as an excuse for justifying the training of...

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