A genuine world economy would dissolve the nation state
Evidence
This pacification would mean the emergence of a genuine world economy-the demise of the nation state, the national interest, national business together with their international alliances. And this is precisely the possibility against which the present world is mobilized: L’ignorance et l’inconscience sont telles que les nationalismes demeurent florissants. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 241
Categorization
- XREF: Reverses the globalization-era claim that capital erodes nation states — Marcuse holds the nation state is actively mobilized against that very possibility. — connects to: Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples; Asian economic growth will destabilize the Western-dominated world order — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 331; World government proposals would eliminate authentic politics by overawing peoples — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2217 (+4 more)
- QUESTION: Does today’s globalization actually substantiate or falsify Marcuse’s claim that genuine world economy is suppressed?
Broader Connections
- Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples
#expands(0.85) - World government proposals would eliminate authentic politics by overawing peoples
#expands(0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2217 - Asian economic growth will destabilize the Western-dominated world order
#corroborates(0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 331 - Capitalism created the first global economy based on economics rather than politics
#expands(0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 173 - Economic globalization undermines the nation as a coherent framework, fueling closed nationalist reactions
#qualifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3167 - Anarchism is only plausible if a community withdraws from the world economy
#qualifies(0.70) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1095