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Ryan McMaken

National divorce does happen, and debts are not necessarily repudiated as a result. We can look to examples from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Czech-Slovak split. 

John T. Flynn

"The commonly accepted theory that Fascism originated in the conspiracy of the great industrialists to capture the state will not hold. It originated on the Left."

Peter Richards

Lilburne's courageous campaigns for liberty resulted in his spending much of his life in prisons.

Lipton Matthews

Mention Rastafarianism and most likely reggae, dreadlocks, and Bob Marley come to mind. However, Rastafarianism helped downtrodden Jamaicans resist the oppressions of colonialism.

Sam Branthoover

While divine monarchy might seem illogical or archaic, it had a larger positive economic impact in society that historians have overlooked.

Faustino Ballvé

Socialism arose as an international working-class movement, but the nationalist has met more success: "Proletarians of all countries, don't come to my country and take my job away from me!"

Ryan McMaken

It’s impossible to simply declare nationalism itself to be good or bad. Its goodness or badness depends primarily on its effect on existing regimes and state institutions.