Nation-states
Subtitle: consciousness and competition
By: Neil Davidson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781608465682
Subjects: Nationalism
Description: "In this insightful new collection of essays, prominent Scottish Marxist Neil Davidson brings his formidable analytical powers to bear on the concept of the capitalist nation-state. Through probing inquiry Davidson draws out how nationalist ideology and consciousness are used to bind the subordinate classes to "the nation," while "the state" is simultaneously wielded by capital as a means of conducting geopolitical competition. The questions Davidson takes up - from the extent to which nationalsim can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions - have wide-ranging implications for today's activists and historians."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: The trouble with "ethnicity"; title: What is national consciousness?; title: From national consciousness to nation-states; title: Marxism and nationhood: two replies to John Foster; title: Enlightenment and anti-capitalism; title: Islam and the enlightenment; title: The necessity of multiple nation-states for capital; title: Far-Right social movements as a problem for capital; title: A Scottish watershed.