Nation-States
Consciousness and Competition
Published on 30. May 2016
400 pages
978-1-60846-569-9 (ISBN)
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In his latest collection of essays, 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 is used to bind the subordinate classes to "the nation,” while simultaneously using "the state” as a means of conducting geopolitical competition for capital.
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Neil Davidson is the author of Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher Prize, How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (2012), and Holding Fast to an Image of the Past (2014). Davidson lectures in sociology in the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- 1. The Trouble with "Ethnicity"
- 2. What Is National Consciousness?
- 3. From National Consciousness to Nation-States
- 4. Marxism and Nationhood: Two Replies to John Foster
- 5. Enlightenment and Anti-Capitalism
- 6. Islam and the Enlightenment
- 7. The Necessity of Multiple Nation-States for Capital
- 8. Far-Right Social Movements as a Problem for Capital
- 9. A Scottish Watershed
- Notes
- Index
