RE: Nationality

["Donal" <donaloc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is for insights such as this which are the main reason that this list is
so worthwhile (and worth the effort it takes to read all the messages). I
have thought about the National question for so long and yet to see it
formulated so succinctly and comprehensively - it really is useful.

> national existence itself is a function of national movements and
> national consciousness. To put it another way, nations as such do not
exist (other
> than in the minds of nationalist theoreticians) other than in the form of
> national states and national movements. For Lenin, and he
> repeated this many times, the national question was not reducible to
questions of language,
> territory, economics or culture, but pertained 'wholly and solely to the
> sphere of political democracy'.

Domhnall.



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