Full Description
These essays focus on the two great themes of nation and revolution, and the third which links them: the state. Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of the different meanings history has for conservatives, radicals and Marxists.
Contents
We Cannot Escape History: Nations, States and Revolutions
Part 1: Nations and States
1. The Trouble with 'Ethnicity'
2. What is National Consciousness?
3. From National Consciousness to Nation-states
4. Two Replies to John Foster:
Stalinism, 'Nation Theory', and Scottish History
The Public Memoirs and Confessions of an Unconscious Weberian
5. The Necessity of Multiple Nation-States for Capital [incorporating 'Many Capitals. Many States']
Part 2: States and Revolutions
6. Asiatic, Tributary or Absolutist?
7. Centuries of Transition
8. How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
9. When History Failed to Turn
10. The French Revolution is Not Over
11. Scotland: Birthplace of Passive Revolution?
12. The American Civil War Considered as a Bourgeois Revolution
13 Revolutions in Theory and History: a Reply to Alex Callinicos and Donny Gluckstein
