I Don't Get It

[Brad DeLong]

>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

Are you implying that Benedict Anderson should have known about the 
Sino-Soviet split after 1958 that prevented Russia and China from 
presenting a "unified front"? Or about the politics of nationalism 
within the USSR from 1920 to 1960?


:-)