>on 1/7/02 8:45 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi at furuhashi.1 at osu.edu wrote:
>
>> Thomas says:
>>
>>>> Are we to
>>>> forego old age pension, public education,
>>>> unemployment insurance,
>>>> national health insurance, etc. as they are part of
>>>> "the hellish cage
>>>> which is the nation State...whose ideology leads
>>>> inevitably to the
>>>> gages of Auschwitz"
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> If not, to say that "the nation State" is "the hellish cage...whose
>> ideology leads inevitably to the gages of Auschwitz" is not even a
>> hyperbole.
>
>you're right, it is not a hyperbole. It is just the simple truth.
>The link between ethnicity and territory/land(the very concept of the nation
>state) leads inevitably(and this is not an "opinion", but a fact) to the
>gages of Auschwitz.
Auschwitz wasn't inevitable even in Germany, much less other "nation states." -- Yoshie
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