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all nations will form only one single family. Capital and 
labour will pass indifferently from one country to another 
in search of the best remuneration. Already many English 
people, taking the lead of other nations, look upon the whole 
globe as their country, and pass the summer in the Alps, the 
winter at Nice, or Cairo, or Madeira, choosing the best climate 
and the pleasantest places. There is no illusion about it. 
We are drawing towards cosmopolitanism. Patriotism is 
everywhere becoming less exclusive and consequently less 
intense. How many people are now ready to say. Ubi bene^ 
ibipatria! But if, in this respect, the International is inspired 
by the present economic movement, and if it execrates war 
between nations, we must not forget that it substitutes the 
universal strife of labour against capital. The enemy is no 
longer the foreigner, but the employer, the factory lord.* 
This is the reason why these brotherly effusions, that one 
would imagine were borrowed from the speeches, suffused 
with Christianity, of the Peace Congresses, are often accom 
panied by language of rage and hate which calls to mind 
the death-chaunt of cannibals. 
What was the part taken by the International in the revolu 
tion of the 18th of March ? M. de Molinari, who watched from 
near at hand the Socialist movement at Paris, affirms that the 
association, as such, took no part in it,t and all known facts 
• To quote one extract in illustration of this phase of thought : 
“Fatherland, a phrase, a folly! Humanity, a fact, a truth. Invented 
by priests and kings, like the mythical God, the fatherland has only 
served for penning up human cattle within separate enclosures, where 
they may be shorn and bled under the very hands of their masters, for 
the greater profit of these latter and in the name of the unclean fetish. 
“ To-day we have had enough of it. Nations are brothers. Kings 
and their hangers-on are the sole enemies. Enough of bloodshed, enough 
of imbecility. Nations, countries are no longer more than words. France 
is dead. Humanity takes her place. The Utopia of Anacharsis Clootz is 
becoming a reality. Nationality, the result of birth, is an evil. Let it 
perish. To be born in this place or that, the result of pure chance, decides 
whether we are to be friends or enemies. Let us repudiate this stupid 
lottery of which we have hitherto been the dupes. Our country is every 
where, where we can live and work in freedom. Peoples, workers, the 
light is spreading. Open your eyes I Down with the Despots ! Away 
with Tyrants! France is dead. Long live humanity!” (Jules Noslag, 
alias Ruffier, in the Rh'olution politique et soríale, i6th April, 1871.) 
t Le Mouvement socialiste et les réunions publiques, by M. de Molinari,