Bond against _Empire_

[Kelley]

and, acourse, in weber's historical sociology of the city, you'll see how 
he examines the rise of the nation state as emerging out of the city and 
it's attendant notions of citizenship. for a nice addition/corrective to 
grand historical theorizing, tho, see margaret sommers on the differences 
in notion of citizenship in the british isles.  good stuff.

hmm. good friend brad delong once asked about how weber could make such 
real politik claims about nationalism and geopolitical enemies, etc....

anyway,

kelley

At 12:06 PM 9/10/01 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>How can "a bunch of countries" make an alliance, "take a common stance 
>>with their creditors, make some serious attempt at developing serious 
>>economic and social links, and arrange some sort of trading system with a 
>>division of labor" without states?
>
>States, plural. I don't like states, and look suspiciously on any proposal 
>that would increase their power, even when they're coming from "our" side. 
>But they exist (like Israel exists) and they're not going away anytime 
>soon. So we make the best of that situation we can. What's I'd like to see 
>is for people to begin thinking and acting beyond national boundaries, and 
>the kind of cross-border links I'm talking about is one way. And if these 
>links serve in the long term to undermine nation-states, so much the better.
>
>Doug