State-centered nationalism is no longer a viable anti-imperialist answer
Evidence
Third, the nation-state is neither the site for the reproduction of capital in the zones of advanced capitalism nor the primary site of resistance to imperialism in zones of backward capitalism; decolonization is now too firmly behind us, the logic of capital is now too deeply entrenched in all our societies, for nationalisms of the kind which are centred on the existing state apparatuses to be the answering dialectic, if they ever were. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to postcolonial-theory debates about nationalism and the state in legacy scholarship. — connects to: Said rejects nation and state as coercive yet affirms national liberation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 842; Anti-war movements reduced socialism to anti-colonial nationalism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 128; Anti-imperial resistance requires nation-state restructuring, not just discursive acts
Related
- Anti-imperial resistance requires nation-state restructuring, not just discursive acts (similarity 0.87)
- Post-colonial states grew more differentiated and competitive, not more unified (similarity 0.80)
- Rejecting Marxism reframed colonial conflict as nations and culture, not classes and capital (similarity 0.80)
- Nationalism’s political role depends on the class configuration of its power bloc (similarity 0.79)
- Progressive and revolutionary kinds of nationalism are actual and sometimes necessary (similarity 0.78)
- Multinational capital objects to sovereign states for the same reasons Said rejects coercive identities (similarity 0.78)