52 | Mike Davis: Historical Materialism and Militant Theory
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is Nationalism Always Bad?
The book was published in 2015 which is actually a little later than I think a lot of these debates about nationalism. So there's a set of like as I understand it, there are some parallel there's a debate and then some parallel proxy debates. It becomes really the linchpin of this because it both in its like direct relationship to like the Soviet blocklike why did nationalisms emerge if like communism can solve that problem. And then it plays into the identity problem like the way people got really interested in the identity and I guess continue to be but you know what I mean?
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