People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism. '
Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead
Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.
It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar