Marxism & Nationalism

Achin Vinaik : Marxism & Nationalism

It is a ‘social relation of collective self-consciousness’ where that consciousness comes from inherited cultural traditions even if those traditions are selected and therefore vary as contexts change over time and space.4 …….
The political dimension of the nation is, as it has to be, either ignored or greatly downgraded. It is only in modernity that a mass politics comes about as a matter of routine; and it is only in the modern era that there emerges a new principle central to all nations in their marriage with the state i.e., the nation-state – that of popular sovereignty. If once kings ruled, now nation-states govern.