Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, And Class Struggle: A Critical Analysis Of Mainstream And Marxist Theories Of Nationalism And National Movements

Critical Sociology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 205-231

  Berberoglu, Berch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 84992792554     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08969205000260030301     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ernest Renan, “Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?” excerpted in John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith (eds.), Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 17.
2. Max Weber, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Edited by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 172.
3. Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York: Collier Books, 1944), p. 10.
4. Hans Kohn, Nationalism: Its Meaning and History (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1965), p. 9.
5. Carlton J.H. Hayes, Essays on Nationalism (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937), p. 245.
6. Carlton Hayes, Nationalism: A Religion (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960).
7. Louis L. Snyder, The Meaning of Nationalism (New Brunswick, NJ.: 1954).
8. Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of Nationalism (New York: Paragone House, 1990), p. 245.
9. Louis L. Snyder (ed.), The Dynamics of Nationalism (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964), p. 2.
10. Snyder, The Meaning of Nationalism, pp. 74-75.
11. See, for example: Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, Fourth, Expanded Edition (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993, first published in 1960); Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1983) and idem, Encounters with Nationalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994); Walker Connor, “A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group is a… Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 1978) and idem, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994); Karl Deutsch, Nationalism and Social Communication (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1953); John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982); Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism, Second Edition (New York: Holms and Meier Publishers, 1983) and idem, The Ethnic Revival (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981); John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith (eds.), Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
12. Kedourie, Nationalism, p. 67.
13. Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, p. 49.
14. Gellner, Encounters With Nationalism, p. 178.
15. Connor, “A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group is a…”, p. 379.
16. Kedourie, Nationalism, pp. 141-42.
17. Gellner, Encounters with Nationalism, pp. 6-7.
18. Anthony Giddens, A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981).
19. Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 212-13.
20. Tom Nairn, The Break Up of Britain, 2nd ed. (London: Verso, 1981), p.
21. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), p. 13.
22. Ernesto Laclau, “Preface,” in Ephraim Nimni, Marxism and Nationalism (London: Pluto Press, 1991), p. x.
23. Nimni, Marxism and Nationalism, p. 4.
24. Horace B. Davis, Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978).
25. E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
26. See Albert Szymanski, Class Structure: A Critical Perspective (New York: Praeger, 1983), pp. 5-7, 76-84.
27. G. Glezerman, Classes and Nations (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979), pp. 7-8.
28. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, On Colonialism (New York: International Publishers, 1972).
29. V.I. Lenin, “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism,” in Selected Works, Vol. 1 (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1960).
30. V.I. Lenin, “Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and the Colonial Questions”, in Collected Works, Vol. 31 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966). See also: V.I. Lenin, “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination,” in Collected Works, Vol. 20; V.I. Lenin, “Critical Remarks on the National Question,” in Collected Works, Vol. 20; and V.I. Lenin, “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination: Theses,” in Collected Works, Vol. 22.
31. J.V. Stalin, “Marxism and the National Question,” Collected Works, Vol. 3.
32. Glezerman, Classes and Nations, p. 21.
33. James Blaut, The National Question: Decolonizing the Theory of Nationalism (London: Zed Books, 1987), pp. 176-95 argues that national liberation struggles against imperialism are, in essence, class struggles that take place at the international level.
34. See Berch Berberoglu (ed.), The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self-Determination in the 20th Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995) for a series of case studies on the national question in the advanced capitalist countries.
35. Szymanski, Class Structure, p. 430.
36. See Berch Berberoglu, The Internationalization of Capital (New York: Praeger, 1987), Chap. 7. See also, Berch Berberoglu, Political Sociology: A Comparative/Historical Approach (Dix Hills, N.Y.: General Hall, 1990), Chap. 2.
37. Albert J. Szymanski, The Logic of Imperialism (New York: Praeger, 1981), p. 426.
38. Berberoglu, Political Sociology, p. 110; emphasis added.
39. David McDowall, The Palestinians: The Road to Nationhood (London: Minority Rights Group, 1995).
40. Helena Cobban, The Palestinian Liberation Organization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). See also Alain Gresh, The PLO: The Struggle Within (London: Zed Books, 1985) for comparison.
41. Rosemary Sayigh, Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (London: Zed Press, 1979), pp. 152-154.
42. Gerard Chaliand, The Palestinian Resistance (Baltimore, Md.: Penguin, 1972), pp. 84-129.
43. For a fully developed analysis of the class nature of nationalism and ethnic conflict, see my forthcoming book Class, State and Nation: The Class Nature of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, forthcoming).