There she also lectured on topics including education, women's rights, free love and antimilitarism. Thus, free speech and encouraging propaganda of the deed or antimilitarism was severely restricted. There she also lectured on topics including education, women's rights, free love, and antimilitarism. The novel's themes include antimilitarism and pacifism, prevalent after World War I. Initially, he tapped into the antimilitarism that animated the left wing of the CIO. Against the exaltation of authority embodied in the military institution, it opposed its antimilitarism. Conservative French nationalists successfully labeled antimilitarism as antinationalist in the 1898-1914 era.