From: "Neil (practical history)" <practicalhistory-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: wheee... nationalism ... Re: AUT: back Vance crisis theory
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:06:43 -0000


I agree with 'commie zero zero' that nationalism and national liberation are 
dead ends, and this obviously makes the notion of 'national oppression' 
problematic. But I don't think racism is a sufficient explanation for some 
of the things labelled as 'national oppression'. For instance, there have 
been examples from the UK in the last few hundred years of white people 
being stopped from speaking the Welsh language in schools or from wearing 
Scottish highland dress (kilts etc.). Was this racism? I'm not sure 'race' 
is a very useful framework in such cases. Perhaps we can talk of 'cultural 
oppression' which unlike 'national oppression' doesn't automatically imply 
the building of a nation state as its solution.

Neil


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