The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
By: Fredy Perlman
Publisher: Black and Red Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Detroit, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780934868273
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics - Current Events; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Science / General; History & Theory - General
Other titles: El persistente atractivo del nacionalismo
First sentence: Nationalism was proclaimed dead several times during the present century:  after the first world war, when the last empires of Europe, the Austrian and the Turkish, were broken up into self-determined nations, and no deprived nationalists remained, except the Zionists;
Description: Examines how people resisting oppression and wishing for autonomy are misled, twisted, and turned into leaders and followers who oppress on the basis of abstract notions. The text ends with a question: “What concentration camp manager, national executioner or torturer is not a descendant of oppressed people?”

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