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An anarchist classic. In these essays, Macdonald turns his back on every doctrine that treats humans as objects, whether implicitly or explicitly. “We must emphasize the emotions, the imagination, the moral feelings, the primacy of the individual human being, must restore the balance that has been broken by the hypertrophy of science in the last two centuries. The root is man, here and not there, now and not then.” * "Dwight Macdonald warned of the ideology of permanent war in his 1946 essay The Root Is Man.  He despaired of an effective counterweight to the power of the corporate state as long as a state of permanent war continued to exist. The liberal class, like the Marxist cadre from which Macdonald had defected in favor of anarchism, had, he wrote, mistakenly placed its hopes for human progress in the state. This was a huge error. The state, once the repository of hope for the liberal class and many progressives, devoured its children in America as well as in the Soviet Union. And the magic elixir, the potent opiate that rendered a population passive and willing to be stripped of power, was a state of permanent war. The political uses of the ideology of perpetual war eluded t

Author

Dwight Macdonald

Publisher

Autonomedia

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570270178

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, True Crime

Updated

2026-03-24