Militarism is to be appraised first of all as a psychic condition. It is the renunciation of
one’s own thought and will, the transformation of man into a dead automaton guided
and set in motion from without, carrying out blindly every command without being
conscious of his own personal responsibility. In one word, militarism is the meanest and
most degraded form of that slave-spirit raised to the status of a national virtue which
despises all the rules of reason and is devoid of all human dignity.
– Rudolf Rocker (Nationalism and Culture)
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