Locating Legacies: ’The Cold War’ with Vijay Prashad
Radicals in Conversation
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The Role of the Nation State in a Transformative Socialist Politics
I wanted to ask you some things that I've been asked because I found these questions quite challenging and I'm still thinking them through. sovereignty is a key preoccupation of anti-imperial and anti-colonial thought and action as we just spoke about Luke D'Nerona. We can't necessarily equate today's progressive nationalisms so-called progressive nationalisms with the anti-colonial nationalisms of the 20th century, he says. Some are less easily dismissed than others but right-wing nativism and nationalisms we can dispense with easily according to him. How do efforts to transcend or undo nations interact with calls for the freedom of the Palestinian people for example or land-
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