[lbo-talk] as if on cue ( definition of nation)

[c b]

> And Goethe did his university studies in Strasbourg/Strassburg. But I don't
> know many leftists who "regard the nation as some sort of eternal form of human
> social life." As far as I can tell, the Benedict Anderson/Imagined Communities
> perspective is pretty much current leftist common sense.

^^^^
CB: Left understanding of the nation is that it is a form that arises
with capitalism.  The national capitalist economy is the basis of the
modern nation.