________________________________________________________________________________ Randolph Bourne's incisive analysis of the interconnection of war and the state is now online at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/bourne.htm "War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.... In a nation at war, every citizen identifies himself with the whole, and feels immensely strengthened in that identification.... He achieves a superb self-assurance, an intuition of the rightness of all his ideas and emotions, so that in the suppression of opponents or heretics he is invincibly strong; he feels behind him all the power of the collective community.... War has an immemorial tradition and heredity only because the State has a long tradition and heredity. But they are inseparably and functionally joined. We cannot crusade against war without crusading implicitly against the State.... The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated." * * * Of related interest at the same website: "Two Local Wars" (Situationist article on the Vietnam and Arab-Israel wars) -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/11.wars.htm "The War and the Spectacle" (on the Gulf war and the media) -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/gulfwar.htm "Advantages and Limits of Nonviolence" -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/joyrev2.htm "Eliminating the Roots of War and Crime" -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/PS/joyrev4.htm * * * The Bureau of Public Secrets website, which has received over 100,000 page visits during its first 16 months, features Ken Knabb's SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY (translations from the notorious group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt) and PUBLIC SECRETS, the recent collection of Knabb's own writings, including "The Joy of Revolution," "Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State," and an assortment of comics, leaflets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, the sixties counterculture, radical women, Chinese anarchists, socially engaged Buddhists, urban "psychogeography," the Watts riot, the Iranian uprising, the Gulf war, and the recent jobless revolt in France. The new site index -- http://www.slip.net/~knabb/index1.htm -- includes over 2000 name and topic entries, from anarchism to Zen. * * * BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA knabb@slip.net http://www.slip.net/~knabb ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org