On Jan 31, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Mon, January 31, 2011 8:47:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] as if on cue
>
> Wojtek:
>
>> before 1939 few believed that the nation of Bach and Goethe will be
>> overrun by barbaric mass murderers.
>
> There was never a "nation of Bach and Goethe."
Besides, that's how people thought of Germany in the 1930s. The history of the German nation-state isn't all that relevant to that perception.
Doug