The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-18

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 ence was better satisfied with re- suits. That same instinct prompted
 the union of the members of the same family; broadened into the wider instinct of the clan, and again
 into the still wider field of the na- tion uniting many clans. Eventu- ally it may evolve to the uinon O. all the races, and internationalism become a reality.
 But just as we see it possible for the family to broaden into the clan and the clan to widen into the nation, so it is not an absurd position to hold that the nation can widen into the comity of nations, without any intervention of national anta- gonisms preventing that assimila- tion.
 The difference between fact and theory however is to be insisted upon. During that period when the human race evolved it's social demarcations of family clan and nation there ex- isted no such system of exploitation as now prevails and as has pre- vailed since the dawn of civiliza- tion. It is not the nationalist spi- Tit that has kept humanity apart
 but the use and preversion of that instinct by the exploiters whether modern capitalist economy. Yet, it Is self evident that this has been more or less inevitable. Feudal chiefs made powerful use of both the family and the clan-the archetypes of nationalities-to strengthen their predominance as eXploiters of the serfs and minds, and in the same manner the capitalist chiefs shrewd- ly use the nationalistic instinct to promote their dominance as indus trial eXploiters.
 It has therefore to be insisted upon that nationalism is perverted under the system and it is this perveEsion which is blamed for condition of things has made na tionalism itself abhorred by a good many who see it abused instead 0, used for the social advancement.
 None the less, we have to insist that nationalism is the nucles Whereon is grown the international spirit which realizes the brother hood of man. It is impossible that such an ideal can be realized or that, to put it properly, national ism can evolve to a higher social state such as internationalism, un- til the exploitation systems be ut terly extirpated.
 There is nothing more bigotted than the spirit of perverted nation alism. It prevents any of the good qualities of other nations being ap- preciated. It begets hate which is blind, and it makes healthy criticism of ones own na- impossible. When this condition develops and cri- ticism of nations up. just acts are regarded as treason able, when the industrial and finan- cial chiefs use the national powers to promote conquest of other ana less powerful nations, when the predatory instincts of commercial ism and finance find expression through the national activities, the perversion of nationalism reaches its height and instead of promoting the freedom of mankind even ln the nation itself tends to enchain of welding the nations together for the furtherance or numan liberty and happiness, )lunges the world into the miseries of an ensiaving peace, and the Eor- 'ors of predatory war.
 Not the least important of the CT 'ects of capitalism is the unfortu- nate reaction it manifests upon the natural scheme of evolution, inter- 'upting the instinctive efforts at progress living beings manifest, md requiring cataclysmic revolu- ions which are necessary to over hrow the retarding and perverting orces of the reactionary system.