Anderson bypassed Marxist dismissal of nationalism while keeping its materialist machinery

Evidence

The intellectual innovation of Imagined Communities lay in diverging from the Marxist dismissal of nationalism and at the same time offering a “hard-headed” analytical framing that at least partially relied on Marxist categories of capitalist forces (Calhoun 2016). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 84

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the author’s own move re: speculation = discussing financial markets without orthodox Marxist dismissal; a model method for what the reader is trying to assess about the ‘counter-speculations’ chapter. — connects to: Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Marxian economism led Marxists to dismiss nationalism as backward ideology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 361; Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 33 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Marxian economism led Marxists to dismiss nationalism as backward ideology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 361; Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 33 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian print nationalism defied Anderson’s model because Egypt sat in an imperial limbo #complicates (0.71) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 352