Eric Beck wrote:
>
> Blah blah. Look, I know that Trots, practicing and recovering, think
> the nation-state is as natural as rain and the base political unit,
> but I hope you won't be offended if others don't have such bad
> imaginations.
Granted that the nation state is (a) a recent development and (b) by no means eternal -- i.e. its history, not "nature." But _as of now+ we do act within a given nation state, do we not?I would venture a bit further: The Nation State is at least coterminous with Capitalism.
Carrol