Preventing nationalist war requires abandoning the myth that Marxism resists nationalism

Evidence

But nothing can be usefully done to limit or prevent such wars unless we abandon fictions like ‘Marxists as such are not nationalists,’ or ‘nationalism is the pathology of modern developmental history,’ and, instead, do our slow best to learn the real, and imagined, experience of the past. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 629

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the scaffold that neither Marxism nor enlightenment universalism immunizes a regime against nationalist closure — parallel to how Islamophobia analyses reject ‘civilization’ framings that claim immunity from racism. — connects to: Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 33; Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Nationalism defeated the Second International yet undergirded the Third International’s Marxism (+6 more)

Related

• Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it (similarity 0.87)
• Ethnic nationalism within the party defeated Americanizing Marxism (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism defeated the Second International yet undergirded the Third International’s Marxism (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism defeated the Second International yet enabled the Third International. (similarity 0.80)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.80)
• Marxism’s economism forced the conclusion that nationalism was a backward, diversionary ideology. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-war movements reduced socialism to anti-colonial nationalism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it #contradicts (0.88) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 33
• Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism #contradicts (0.85)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #contradicts (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Marxism failed to comprehend nationalism, consciousness, racism, and Black history #contradicts (0.85)
• The universal-proletariat claim persisted as non-empirical doctrine in Marxism #contradicts (0.78)
• Nationalism defeated the Second International yet undergirded the Third International’s Marxism #contradicts (0.75)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #contradicts (0.75)
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #contradicts (0.72)
• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world #contradicts (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362