Lucien Van Der Walt

“Rocker claimed that it was "meaningless to speak of a community of national interests, for that which the ruling class of every country has up to now defended as national interest has never been anything but the special interest of privileged minorities in society secured by the exploitation and political suppression of the great masses." For behind nationalist ideas, wrote Rocker, are "hidden ... the selfish interests of power-loving politicians and money-loving businessmen for whom the nation is a convenient cover to hide their personal greed and their schemes for political power.”
― Lucien Van Der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism

“For Guerrero, racial and national divisions were deliberately promoted by the rich and powerful: Racial prejudice and nationality, clearly managed by the capitalists and tyrants, prevent peoples living side by side in a fraternal manner.... A river, a mountain, a line of small monuments suffice to maintain foreigners and make enemies of two peoples, both living in mistrust and envy of one another because of the acts of past generations. Each nationality pretends to be above the other in some kind of way, and the dominating classes, the keepers of education and the wealth of nations, feed the proletariat with the belief of stupid superiority and pride [and] make impossible the union of all nations who are separately fighting* to free themselves from Capital.”
― Lucien Van Der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism