I Don't Get It

[Kelley]

At 05:05 PM 11/19/01 +0000, Jeet Heer wrote:
>  "The roots of Imagined Communities lie in what Anderson, in the late 
> 1970s, saw as 'a fundamental trnasformatin in the history of Marxism and 
> Marxist movements': the wars between Vietnam, Cambodia, and China in 
> 1978-1979. Far from presenting a unified front against Western 
> imperialism and capitalism, those regimes...were engaged in undisgised 
> fratricide. And so Anderson undertook a full-scale study of nationalism, 
> a force whose power and complexity were not explained by the Marxist 
> theory in which he had been schooled."

so ahistorical!

</sarcasm>

kelley