Nationalism: The Instrumental Passion  

Oleh:

Kitching, Gavin

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Capital & Class vol. 9 no. 1 (Apr. 1985), page 98-139.
Fulltext: 98.pdf (1.21MB)

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Marxists and Communist parties have had difficulty understanding nationalism and dealing with nationalist movements . Neither they, nor Weberian theorists, have been able to understand the `passion' engendered by nationalism - a passion which drives people to die for their nation . In this review of two books on nationalism, one by a Weberian, the other within the Marxist tradition, Gavin Kitching identifies the beginnings of a materialist theory of consciousness which partially explains the power of nationalist passions . The two books are : Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread ofnationalism by Benedict Anderson (London, Verso, 1983) and Nations and nationalism by Ernest Gellner (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1983) .

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