[lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky andPalestine: Asset or Liability?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jul 23 08:51:03 PDT 2010


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



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