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What are nations, nationality and nationalism?
It may seem that Marxism’s promotion of internationalism and class coming before country means it opposes ‘the nation state’ — but the truth is actually one of pragmatic acceptance, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
The 1789 French revolution is often seen as the turning point in creating what we understand as nation states today
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LET’S start here by investigating “nations” and “nationality.” We’ll consider what nationalism is in the next Full Marx column.
Nations — surely, are places on the map with their own government. England, Scotland, Wales: all “nations” now, at least in common discourse. So what about “Great” Britain? Or Ireland? One criterion is the existence of a territorial “state” — or the aspiration of populations (claiming a distinct cultural identity) to establish one.
Books on “British” history often go way back beyond 1066 — some even go back to the Neolithic or before. In reality, the concept of the nation as understood today is a relative novelty.
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