Anti-patriotism

Anti-patriotism is the ideology that opposes patriotism; it usually refers to those with cosmopolitan views and is usually of an internationalist and anti-nationalist nature as well.

[1] The idea of multiple cultures intertwined has also been questioned as anti-patriotic, but mainly in smaller social communities: colleges, universities, etc.

It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others[5].The individualist anarchist Hans Ryner also expressed his opposition to patriotism:Anti-patriotism was the reaction of reason and sentiment the moment patriotism reigned.

Karl Marx famously stated that "The working men have no country"[10] and that "the supremacy of the proletariat will cause them [national differences] to vanish still faster."

The same view is promoted by present-day Trotskyists such as Alan Woods, who is "in favour of tearing down all frontiers and creating a socialist world commonwealth.

Four Victims of Cheap Patriotism (1910). Anti-war cartoon depicting a widow grieving the death of her husband alongside their children playing with a toy rifle and soldiers.