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Diving Into the Wreckage - Nationalism, Liberation and the Bourgeois State Part 1
🕑 Added 2023-11-08 11:00:05 +0000 UTCThe arcane numbering system is gone, but Sean and Varn have (surprise!) a new miniseries. Inspired by current events - such as the Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel's ongoing atrocities in Gaza, and the turn towards post-neoliberal economic nationalism - we're going to explore all manner of Marxist and non-Marxist theories on the nation state to help get our heads around the current mess the world is in and hopefully chart a pathway out.
How did the nation-state rise in the early modern world? what role has nationalism played in capitalist development? What are the historical legacies of Lenin and Stalin's nationalities policies? Rhetoric aside, what is the relationship (if any) between national liberation movements and the communist project?
For this first episode we mention various theorists - Harun Yilnaz, Ze'ev Sternhell, Benedict Anderson, Benjamin Studebaker, Eric Hobsbawm - and also look at this essay;:
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/3587.html
Comments
Mike
Do you where we can find that Pierre Bourdieu essay?
Matt Crossin
A key text you should consult is Rudolf Rockers Nationalism and Culture. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-nationalism-and-culture Also, even though Bonanno is an insurrectionist, he has a good brief summary of the classical anarchist theorisation of nationalism and national liberation: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-anarchism-and-the-national-liberation-struggle
Yves Chan-You
Before the Patreon only second part, Sean talks about us being able to watch the video of the dialogue. Where can we watch that?
Jim
Hell yeah
Isaac Suárez
I was wondering what happened to Djene- totally understandable and also profoundly sad given the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It’s hard not to feel like a political orphan on the anglophone left.
