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#RandolphBourne

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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):
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screenshot of 1st page of Bourne, "UNFINISHED FRAGMENT ON THE STATE" (Winter, 1918), in Untimely Thoughts, 1919: "Government is synonymous with neither State nor Nation. It is the machinery by which the nation, organized as a State, carries out its State functions. Government is a framework of the administration of laws, and the carrying out of the public force. Government is the idea of the State put into practical operation in the hands of definite, concrete, fallible men. It is the visible sign of the invisible grace. It is the word made flesh. And it has necessarily the limitations inherent in all practicality. Government is the only form in which we can envisage the State, but it is by no means identical with it. That the State is a mystical conception is something that..."
"...must never be forgotten. Its glamor and its sig- nificance linger behind the framework of Gov- ernment and direct its activities. Wartime brings the ideal of the State out into very clear relief, and reveals attitudes and ten- dencies that were hidden. In times of peace the sense of the State flags in a republic that is not militarized. For war is essentially the health of the State. The ideal of the State is that within its territory its power and influence should be universal. As the Church is the medium for the spiritual salvation of men, so the State is thought of as the medium for his political salvatio|n. Its idealism is a rich blood flowing to all the mem- bers of the body politic. And it is precisely in war that the urgency for union seems greatest, and the necessity for universality seems most unques- tioned. The State is the organization of the.."
from editors Introduction to Randolph Bourne, Untimely Papers, 1919: "He was nowhere wanted. It was difficult even for him to get publication for book reviews. Backed only by a few friends, he held a solitary way, with hardly the heart for new enterprise. Nevertheless he began a book, "The State," in which he planned the complete expres- sion of his attitude, both destructive and creative. This was never finished. / We have only what amounts to an essay ; but undoubtedly this essay is the most effective and terrible indictment of the institution of the State which the war has yet brought forth. It furnishes a natural climax to The Seven Arts essays; together they make a book, both historic and prophetic. /We have nothing else like this book in America. It is the only living record of the suppressed minority, and is, as so often the case, the prophecy of that minority's final triumph...A great chorus takes up now the song of this solitary.."
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