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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
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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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