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'''Randolph Silliman Bourne''' (May 30, 1886 - December 22, 1918) was a left wing academic who was best known for his phrase "War is the health of the State".<ref>[https://mises.org/library/bourne-war Bourne of War]</ref>
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'''Randolph Silliman Bourne''' (May 30, 1886 - December 22, 1918) was a left wing academic who was an ardent voice for social justice,<ref>[http://sdonline.org/43/the-radicalism-of-randolph-bourne/ The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne]</ref> and is best known for his phrase "War is the health of the State".<ref>[https://mises.org/library/bourne-war Bourne of War]</ref>
    
==Early life==
 
==Early life==
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He was one of the more important of the younger contributors to American magazines on social and political movements and on education. His most important books are "Youth and Life" (1913) and "Education and Living" (1917).
 
He was one of the more important of the younger contributors to American magazines on social and political movements and on education. His most important books are "Youth and Life" (1913) and "Education and Living" (1917).
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In 1911 he had begun contributing to ''The Atlantic Monthly'', and his first book, "Youth and Life," a volume of essays, appeared in 1913. He was a member of the contributing staff of [[The New Republic]] during its first three years; later he was a contributing editor of ''The Seven Arts'' and ''The Dial''. He had published, in addition to his first collection of essays and a large number of miscellaneous articles and book reviews, two other books, "Education and Living" and "The Gary Schools." At the time of his death he was engaged on a novel and a study of the political future titled "The State".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jFxaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR9 History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays]</ref>
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In 1911 he had begun contributing to ''The Atlantic Monthly'', and his first book, "Youth and Life," a volume of essays, appeared in 1913. He was a member of the contributing staff of [[The New Republic]] during its first three years; later he was a contributing editor of ''The Seven Arts'' and ''The Dial''. He had published, in addition to his first collection of essays and a large number of miscellaneous articles and book reviews, two other books, "Education and Living" and "The Gary Schools."
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During this time, he was supportive of the work of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]], including their actions at the Paterson strike.  He wrote poems, such as "''Sabotage''", which encouraged rebellion against oppressive businessmen.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9WVqnsru8oC&pg=PA90 The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918]</ref>
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At the time of his death he was engaged on a novel and a study of the political future titled "The State".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jFxaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR9 History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays]</ref>
    
===Transnationalism===
 
===Transnationalism===
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==Death and Legacy==
 
==Death and Legacy==
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He died in New York, December 22, 1918.  In 2001, the Randolph Bourne Institute(RBI) was founded<ref>[http://randolphbourne.org/ Randolph Bourne Institute]</ref> in pursuit of Bourne's ideals of a noninterventionist foreign policy for the United States.  RBI is the publisher of Antiwar.com.
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He died in New York, December 22, 1918.  In 2001, the Randolph Bourne Institute(RBI) was founded<ref>[http://randolphbourne.org/ Randolph Bourne Institute]</ref> in pursuit of Bourne's ideals of a non-interventionist foreign policy for the United States.  RBI is the publisher of Antiwar.com.
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==Quotes==
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* "Who that saw the Paterson Strike Pageant in 1913 can ever forget that thrilling evening when an entire labor community dramatized its wrongs in one supreme outburst of group-emotion?  Crude and rather terrifying, it stamped into one's mind the idea that a new social art was in the American world, something genuinely and excitingly new."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=njR1AAAAMAAJ&q="Who+that+saw+the+Paterson+Strike+Pageant+in+1913+can+ever+forget" American studies: Schriftenreihe]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GMwfv9NDBI4C&pg=PA175 Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike 1913]</ref>
    
==See also==
 
==See also==
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