Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels

ISBN-13: 9780198279594 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 280 str.

Erica Benner

Opis

This book counters a range of assumptions commonly held about Marx's views of nationalism and internationalism, not least by twentieth-century marxists themselves. It shows that Marx did not envisage the abolition of national communities or nation states; that the politics of nationalism in Marx is not incompatible with a politics of class; that Marx was repeatedly critical of a "utopian" internationalism, and that the themes of nationalism and international solidarity, far from being necessarily in opposition, can be seen in many cases as mutually reinforcing. Nationalism then emerges in Marxist theory as a form of political self-identification and mobilization that can contribute to the broader project of social and political freedom.

Recenzje

... formidable and academically vigorous book in which, literally, no page of Marx's and Engel's voluminous literary legacies remain unturned ... it should not be judged by its contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the problems of contemporary nations and nationalism but as another addition to the scholarly literature inquiring into the works of Marx and Engels and dealing with the various (mis)interpretations of their ideas.

O autorze

Erica Benner was formerly lecturer in Political Philosophy at Warsaw University