Colonised peoples’ nationalism differs fundamentally from colonisers’ nationalism

Evidence

Labour has allowed election after election to be fought not on the Red terrain of resocialisation, but on the Blue territory of identitarian community, with its border guards (we’ll have as many as you!) and barbed wire fences (they will be as high as yours!). The genius of the progressive forces which have seized the SNP, meanwhile, was to have moved from the Blue of identitarian community — and the nationalism of colonised peoples is of course very different to the nationalism of the colonisers — to the Red of internationalist cosmopolitan conviviality. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1862

Categorization

• XREF: The colonised-versus-coloniser nationalism distinction echoes anticolonial theory from the Black Marxism and Along the Archival Grain material. — connects to: Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 22; Egypt’s nationalism embodies a colonized-colonizer paradox the binary model misses; Nationalism in exploited regions derives from indigenous ideational systems — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 379 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Nationalism in exploited regions derives from indigenous ideational systems #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 379
• Egypt’s nationalism embodies a colonized-colonizer paradox the binary model misses #complicates (0.83)
• Colonial exclusion categories sedimented into the national identity of the colonized #corroborates (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 463
• Colonized nationalists engaged with, rather than ignored, imposed imperial racial categories #complicates (0.81)
• Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture #expands (0.79) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 45
• Official nationalism invited colonized peoples to assimilate but barred full inclusion #expands (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 401
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements #corroborates (0.75)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements #qualifies (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 22