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Chapter 2: “NATIONALISM AND ITS RELATION TO CULTURE”
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A collection of essays arguing that progress arises from individual creativity and autonomy rather than from the State or collective institutions, and rejecting both parliamentary democracy and dictatorship as inadequate answers. The author examines how political authority, tradition, and economic arrangements constrain individuality, criticizes laissez-faire individualism as a veil for exploitation, and connects cultural and technological advancement to personal initiative. The pieces advocate limiting coercive power and reshaping education and social structures to nurture independent thought and free expression instead of conformity.

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Title: The place of the individual in society

Author: Emma Goldman

Release date: August 16, 2023 [eBook #71418]

Language: English

Original publication: Chicago: Free Society Forum, 1940

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PLACE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
IN SOCIETY

By EMMA GOLDMAN

“NATIONALISM AND ITS RELATION TO CULTURE”

By RUDOLF ROCKER

This profound work will revolutionize the intellectual world of thought by showing that the heretofore accepted notions as to the underlying causes of Social Phenomena are only partially true and therefore, inadequate to explain how social changes are affected.

Many great thinkers have sought to formulate a “Philosophy of History” which would enable us to analyze and explain, as well as predict social and historical events. Buckle, Hegel, Marx and Spengler are just a few among the great thinkers who have contributed to this great task, but Rocker with his profound understanding and in his illuminating style shows why the “Hegelian Dialectics”, “Marx’s Economic Determinism” and “The Spenglerian Philosophy of Destiny” have failed.

In this veritable encyclopedia of knowledge, we see before us, in a living procession, the great cultures of all ages. The thoughts and ideals of the Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks and Romans become accessible to us with the same clarity and understanding as the thoughts and ideals of our contemporaries. No intelligent person regardless of his school of thought, can afford to miss reading this great work.

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