Patriotism - by Ralph Korngold

The workers have no country.

This is no more your country than the shop

you work in is your shop or the factory you work

in is your factory. You are simply employed there, that is all.

If you can find no one who will give you a

job you may be arrested under the vagrancy law.

If you live in the South you may be run in as a

vag, just as if you live in the North. You may

breathe here, provided someone will give you the

privilege to stand on his land.

Many who so proudly talk about their country

do not even own a plot to be buried in. more...