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Anonymous, Lesbian Ethics, Volume 3 No. 3, (1989), Guerilla Feminism

by David Hockney

And, by the way, that doctrine of collective punishment is part of the logic of fascism! “You cannot separate yourself from the People, and therefore where the People go you must follow, lest you be a traitor or devoured by an enemy who will not overlook your identity” is how fascism casts war in the first place! World War 2 was driven, on the Axis side, by leaders who cast their wars of conquest as national wars for national benefit, who wanted to create an atomic, monolithic identity that annihilated any possibility of individual destiny or moral responsibility. If you didn’t go along with Hitler, you were betraying the German people–it’s nauseating to see that same logic recapitulated as a defense for killing civilians from the other side as well. Like, jesus, are you really just fucked if you’re a German civilian who despises Hitler in 1944? Are your choices death by the Volksgericht or death by an Allied bomb? Is that really the set of options you want to offer people? This is why I think nationalism is nearly akin to a kind of brain worms; it leads people to look at one of the bloodiest and most horrific conflicts of human history only through the lens of the exact same logic that kicked it off in the first place.