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> In the freest of republics as well as in the most tyrannical of empires, all foreign policy, the diplomatic negotiations which produce or forestall war, are equally the private property of the Executive part of the Government, and are equally exposed to
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libcom.orgWar is the health of the state - Randolph BourneThis classic first part of an essay entitled "The State," left unfinished at Bourne's untimely death in 1918, it explores the connection between patriotism, war, and the State.
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"War is [essentially] the health of the state."
—Randolph Bourne (1886-1918).
In "Unfinished Fragment on the State," 1918 book draft published in collected volume Untimely Papers (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919):
archive.org/details/untimelypa
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