Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and (16/30)

 Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Patriotoxication (16/30)

Mahmoud Sadeghi Janbahan

Translated by Maryam Sadeghi/ Laya Najmaraqi 



Philosophical Anarchological Elucidation of Homeland, Borders, and Identity in the Existential Perspective of Anarchic and Free Life


Chauvinistic Patriotism and the Destruction of Dignity

From the perspective of philosophical anarchopathology, chauvinistic patriotism represents one of the harshest forms of disorder in the perception of human dignity and moral consciousness. In this paradigm, the homeland is not only sanctified but also becomes the criterion for valuing human beings. Respect, rights, and even the possibility of life itself become conditional upon membership in the patriotic “us” that considers itself the sole standard of identity and humanity.

According to this logic, an individual is deemed worthy of respect only if defined within the framework of a shared ethnicity, language, race, or border. Individual dignity is not based on humanity itself but contingent on ideological identity formation. This condition is not only incompatible with the fundamental principles of anarchist ethics—which emphasize freedom, choice, difference, and inherent human dignity—but also signifies the complete collapse of moral criteria in relation to the “other.”

In chauvinistic reasoning, the “other” is not merely a stranger but a threat to the purity of national identity. A threat that must be eliminated, excluded, or destroyed linguistically, politically, or culturally. Immigrants, borderless people, dissenters, or even those who differ in dress and lifestyle are all subject to symbolic and structural violence. This violence is often legitimized under the resounding rhetoric of patriotism and national zeal and institutionalized in laws, education, and collective memory.

Within this structure, the homeland ceases to be a home or a possibility of choice and instead functions as a hard boundary of humanity. A boundary where only a pre-defined “we” are deemed worthy of living, expressing, and belonging. Those outside this “we” fall outside the circle of dignity and, at best, must remain silent, and at worst, be eliminated.

Philosophical anarchology of homeland, confronting this condition, emphasizes unconditional human dignity. A dignity independent of language, soil, border, or ethnicity and meaningful only through freedom and ethics. Chauvinistic patriotism is not a sign of love for the homeland but rather a symptom of moral and political disorder in which love becomes a tool for hatred and identity a pretext for domination.

Citation:

Sadeghi Janbahan, M. (2025). Philosophical Anarchology of Patriotism and the Philosophical Anarchopathology of Patriotoxication (16/30): From Homeland as Prison to Cosmopolitanism as the Telos of Anarchist Life.

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