Where are we today?
“War is the Health of the State.”
 ~ Randolph Bourne, 1917
“Only when the State is
at war does the modern society function with that unity of sentiment, simple uncritical patriotic devotion, cooperation of services, which have always been the ideal of the
State lover...”
War is the health of the State. Only when the State is at war does the modern society function with that unity of sentiment, simple uncritical patriotic devotion, cooperation of services, which have always been the ideal of the State lover...
    ~ Randolph Bourne
The above paragraphs contain quotations from the first draft of an essay, "The State", which was left unfinished by Bourne at the time of his death. It is now in the Bourne MSS, Columbia University Libraries.
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