Anti-patriotism

Anti-patriotism is opposition to patriotism or to demands for national loyalty. It can arise from criticism of nationalism, state power, or the subordination of individual judgment to national allegiance.

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Patriotism: Patriotism is attachment to, identification with, or concern for one's country. It is the national attachment anti-patriotism questions or rejects.
Antinationalism: Antinationalism is opposition to nationalism as a political ideology or organizing principle. It targets nationalism specifically, while anti-patriotism can reject national loyalty more broadly.
Hannah Arendt: Hannah Arendt was a political theorist whose work examined totalitarianism, revolution, and political responsibility. Her analysis of statelessness and political belonging illuminates tensions between citizenship and national allegiance.
Conscientious objection: Conscientious objection is refusal to perform military service or another legal duty because of moral or religious conviction. It can express refusal to place national commands above individual conscience.
Freedom of speech: Freedom of speech is the right to express ideas without unjustified government restriction. Anti-patriotic expression tests whether criticism of the nation receives equal protection.
Nationalism: Nationalism is a political principle that treats a nation as a primary basis for identity and political legitimacy. Anti-patriotism often opposes nationalism's claims on political loyalty.
Pacifism: Pacifism is opposition to war and, in some forms, to violence as a means of resolving conflict. Pacifists may resist patriotic appeals to support war without rejecting all attachment to country.
Emma Goldman: Emma Goldman was an anarchist writer and speaker who opposed militarism, conscription, and state authority. Her anti-militarist arguments challenged patriotic demands made during wartime.
Anti-war movement: An anti-war movement is organized opposition to a war or to war as a policy. Its members often confront patriotic rhetoric used to defend military action.
Political obligation: Political obligation is the question of whether and why people have a duty to obey political authorities. Anti-patriotism challenges the idea that national membership itself creates duties of obedience.