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>We said, therefore, to be a nationalist means to be an individual without obligation. "It is a coward who does not want to admit his cowardice; a murderer who represses his inclination to murder, powerless to suppress it altogether, and yet who dares not kill, except in the secrecy or anonymity of the crowd, or in some kind of just war. A malcontent who in peacetime does not dare to rebel for fear of the consequences of his rebellion» – the image and situation of Sartre's quoted anti-Semite. And where, we ask, did this cowardice, that commitment, that momentum of nationalism in our time come from? Pressed by ideologies, on the margins of the social movement, crowded and lost among confronting ideologies, unfit for individual rebellion, because it was denied to him, the individual found himself in a gap, in a void, not participating in social life but a social being, an individualist and individuality denied to him in the name ideology, and what is left for him but to look for his social being elsewhere? A nationalist is a repressed individualist, nationalism is a repressed (collective) expression of such and such individualism, ideology, and anti-ideology...

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Danilo Kiš was really inspired by Bataille, all of you ITT that care about Bataille should also read Kiš.