Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed.

Evidence

Second, all were able to work from visible models provided by their distant, and after the convulsions of the French Revolution, not so distant, predecessors. The ‘nation’ thus became something capable of being consciously aspired to from early on, rather than a slowly sharpening frame of vision. Indeed, as we shall see, the ‘nation’ proved an invention on which it was impossible to secure a patent. It became available for pirating by widely different, and sometimes unexpected, hands. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 284

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core ‘piracy’ concept: the nation as a patent-free invention available for imitation by later nationalisms.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia field’s premise that colonial/nationalist frames circulate and get re-purposed across contexts; connects to the module’s ‘imagined community of the nation’ goal. — connects to: A colonized intellectual could use Dutch nationalist history against the Dutch — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 454; Revolution and nationalism are piratable inventions that lock societies into ahead-behind self-perception — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 618; Official nationalism is a copyable state-serving policy with a Janus-headed legacy — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 625 (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.87)
• Later European nationalisms differed from American ones in print-language centrality and visible models. (similarity 0.85)
• Revolution and nationalism are piratable inventions that lock societies into ahead-behind self-perception (similarity 0.85)
• Official nationalism is a copyable state-serving policy with a Janus-headed legacy (similarity 0.84)
• Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards (similarity 0.83)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.82)
• Revolution and nationalism are pirateable inventions like capitalism and Marxism (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism was invented in colonial Creole societies, not Europe. (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did (similarity 0.80)
• Revolutionary regimes retroactively adopt dynastic national identities as state power (similarity 0.80)
• A colonized intellectual could use Dutch nationalist history against the Dutch (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism emerged from printed shared narratives, not shared acquaintance (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism can only be judged through its particular instances, not abstraction (similarity 0.79)
• Material interests and Enlightenment ideas alone could not shape nationalist imagined communities. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models #exemplifies (0.90) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 488