Nationalism answers an existential belonging deficit that capitalism creates
Evidence
But the right’s retreat from modernity gives all the more impetus for the left to reclaim it. Current right-wing populism is responding to real problems of the neoliberal world. In addition to economic stagnation, it is also offering a balm for the existential deficit in contemporary capitalism: the banal nihilism of a world cored out by capitalist imperatives. Its answer, naturally, is nationalism. But this is by no means the only response to the problem of belonging. Control of their own lives. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2047
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Compensatory fantasy of Family Nation and Heroism drives capitulation to capitalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 377; Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation; Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 83 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation
#corroborates(0.85) - Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost
#corroborates(0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370 - State capitalism’s inner tendency is identity, community, and stability
#corroborates(0.80) - Nationalism arises from print capitalism’s imagined communities, not from class or material grievance alone
#qualifies(0.75) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 83 - The working and middle classes swapped sides on globalization and nationalism
#complicates(0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 23 - Print capitalism’s sacral-vernacular split enabled nationalist imagination
#qualifies(0.72) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 90