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Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels

By Erica Benner

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1996
ISBN
0198279590, 9780198279594, 9780191521058
LCC
HX550.N3 B47 1995
Open Library ID
OL787941M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32994111 bytes)
Pages
277\277
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book counters a range of assumptions commonly held about Marx's views of nationalism and internationalism, not least by twentieth-century marxists themselves. It shows that Marx did not envisage the abolition of national communities or nation states; that the politics of nationalism in Marx is not incompatible with a politics of class; that Marx was repeatedly critical of a "utopian" internationalism, and that the themes of nationalism and international solidarity, far from being necessarily in opposition, can be seen in many cases as mutually reinforcing. Nationalism then emerges in Marxist theory as a form of political self-identification and mobilization that can contribute to the broader project of social and political freedom.

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