Nation-states : consciousness and competition / Neil Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Neil, 1957-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 385 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2016]

Summary:

"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." -- back cover.

Contents:

The trouble with "ethnicity"

What is national consciousness?

From national consciousness to nation-states

Marxism and nationhood: two replies to John Foster

Enlightenment and anti-capitalism

Islam and the enlightenment

The necessity of multiple nation-states for capital

Far-Right social movements as a problem for capital

A Scottish watershed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-366) and index.

ISBN:

1608465683

9781608465682

OCLC:

907653031