Perhaps none of the radicals embodied Nietzsche’s conception of the dangerous thinker more than Goldman. Certainly, given her 1917 incarceration and subsequent deportation to Russia, none were penalized more harshly for their ideas. Her critique of wartime patriotism as yet another iteration of the masses’ slave morality elicited the very response of public morality as weapon of terror that she spent her career protesting. She insisted that patriotism was another manufactured notion of affiliation and obligation that turned one’s homeland into a sentimental idol while demanding that the
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