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He says French revolutionary soldiers could run into cannon fire because liberty was treated as more valuable than life.
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Citizen Soldiers
He says French revolutionary soldiers could run into cannon fire because liberty was treated as more valuable than life.
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"Okay, so the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by God. Our freedom is what connects us to God. So our..."
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"...army which is now composed of professional soldiers before they were citizen soldiers so they only volunteered when Rome was at war but now..."
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"...Sporans had discipline. But most armies, like the Athenians, they were citizen soldiers. They did this for fun. They did this as a civic..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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