Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and (21/30)

 Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Patriotoxication (21/30)

M. Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi/Laya Najmaraqi 


A Philosophical-Anarchological Reflection on Homeland, Border, and Identity within an Anarchistic Mode of Existence

— Mental Homeland-Escape as Ethical Reverence for Human Dignity

— Moral Passage Beyond Borders, Nationality, and Soil in the Context of Cosmopolitanism

In the theoretical framework of Philosophical Anarchology, homeland-escape is not understood as a rupture from the meaning of homeland, but rather as an ethical and dignity-centered act in resistance to the mythologization of homeland, border, and nationality. This escape is not a flight from identity, but a conscious transcendence of coercive structures of belonging that reduce the human being to soil, flag, or ethnicity and transform freedom into obedience.

Homeland-escape, in this sense, signifies a refusal to surrender one’s human dignity in exchange for residing within an authoritarian structure. The individual, by withdrawing from geography or breaking with ideological frameworks of nationalism, is not defending oneself—but rather honoring one’s humanity through ethical dissidence. This escape is a deliberate choice to live in a world where identity-boundaries are reimagined as moral boundaries.

Within a cosmopolitan, authority-resistant belief system, homeland is no longer defined as a place of birth or preordained belonging, but as a possibility for free coexistence. Homeland-escape, then, is a movement—from homeland as cage to homeland as potential—a potential to remain human in a world where boundaries must be ethically reexamined.

Patriotoxication, Identity Trauma, and the Reproduction of Domination

In Philosophical Anarchology, patriotism—particularly in its ideological and aggressive forms—is a manifestation of collective identity trauma: a pathological effort to stabilize the self in an unstable world by clinging to false symbols of permanence such as land, flag, race, history, or language. Here, belonging to a homeland is not a matter of freedom, but of anxiety, insecurity, and the compulsive need to define a superior ‘Us’.

This deep wound, grounded in identity, leads—psychologically and socially—to enemy-making and the erasure of the Other. Patriotism, instead of nurturing coexistence, becomes a machine for producing domination: domination over the other, over dissent, over migrants, over women, minorities, languages—and even over one’s own conscience. Wherever identity is defined through exclusion, violence becomes legitimized.

From the perspective of Philosophical Anarchology, such patriotism is a perpetual reproduction of structures of domination. What appears as “national pride” often masks a fear of difference and serves as a tool of control over freedom. Thus, extremist patriotism is not a solution to identity crises—it is itself a form of philosophical and ethical pathology.

To recognize patriotism as an identity pathology is the first step in overcoming it. In this passage, Philosophical Anarchology invites us to reimagine the homeland—not as a balm for wounded identity—but as a space for free, pluralistic, and responsible living.


Citation 

Sadeghi Janbahan, M. (2025). “Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Patriotoxication (21/30): From Homeland as Prison to Cosmopolitanism as the Horizon of Anarchistic Freedom.”

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