Voline on Nostr: Rudolf Rocker in 1937 on "the national interest". "We must not forget that we are ...

Rudolf Rocker in 1937 on "the national interest".

"We must not forget that we are always dealing with the organized selfishness of privileged minorities which hide behind the skirts of the nation, hide behind the credulity of the masses. We speak of national interests, national capital, national spheres of interest, national honor, and national spirit; but we forget that behind all this there are hidden merely the selfish interests of power-loving politicians and money-loving business men for whom the nation is a convenient cover to hide their personal greed and their schemes for political power from the eyes of the world."

— Rudolf Rocker. Nationalism and Culture (1937). Montreal: Black Rose, 1997. 252–3.