Chapter 5:

Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty

What is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivety, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too…

Chapter 8:

The Traffic in Women

Our reformers have suddenly made a great discovery — the white slave traffic. The papers are full of these “unheard-of conditions,” and lawmakers are already planning a new set of laws to check the horror.

Poison

Militarism is a poison for social movements. It’s social waves come in, and while giving some oomph to movements, always implants a terrible machismo and acceptance for intolerable violence. It can take a promising social movement in Venezuela and inject a dangerous machismo that unravels any gains. It can rip out…