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Introduction 1. See the acerbic commentary on Simon’s views in J. G. [Jules Guesde], “Patriotisme de classe,” Le Socialiste, 26 September 1891. Guesde quotes Simon, but does not, unfortunately, identify the cited text. 2. S. Bloom, The World of Nations: A Study of the National Implications in the Work of Karl Marx (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), still one of the best studies of “Marxism and nationalism.” 3. N. Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism (London: New Left Books, 1978), p. 93. For “evasion,” see B. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983), p. 13; and for “historical failure,” T. Nairn, “The Modern Janus,” New Left Review, no. 94 (1975): 3. All three indictments originate with scholars sympathetic to Marxism. 4. According to the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm in his “Reflections on Nationalism,” in Imagination and Precision in the Social Sciences, ed. T. Nossiter, A. Hanson, and S. Rokkan (London: Faber and Faber, 1972), p. 386. 5. A. Wright, “Socialism and Nationalism,” in The Nation State, ed. L. Tivey (Oxford: Robertson, 1981), p. 149. For Marx’s typically abortive plan to expand his work beyond the analysis of capitalism to the study of nationalism, see H. Davis, Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978), p. 1.There is a representative critique of Marx in S. Avineri, “Marxism and Nationalism,” in The Impact of Western Nationalism, ed. J. Reinharz and G. Mosse (London: Sage, 1992), p. 284. 6. For the supposedly disabling commitment to world history, see J. Petras, “Marx and Engels on the National Question,” Journal of Politics 33 (1971): 799–802. Critique of the critiques of classical Marxist understandings of nationalism may be found in M. Löwy, “Marxism and the National Question,” in Revolution and Class Struggle: A Reader in Marxist Politics, ed. R. Blackburn (London: Harvester, 1978), pp. 136–60; T. Purvis, “Marxism and Nationalism,” in Marxism and Social Science, ed. A. Gamble, D. Marsh, and T. Tant (London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 217–28; I. Cummins, Marx, Engels and National Movements (London: Croom Helm, 1980), pp. 171–72; S. Milner, The Dilemmas of Internationalism: French Syndicalism and the International Labour Movement, 1900–1914 (New York: Berg, 1991), pp. 2–3; and M. Forman, Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), esp. p. 167. 185 Notes 7. C. Herod, The Nation in the History of MarxianThought:The Concept of Nations with History and Nations without History (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976); and R. Rosdolsky, Engels and the “Nonhistoric” Peoples: The National Question in the Revolution of 1848 (Glasgow: Critique Books, 1986). For defense of the concept, see S. Meznaric, “A Neo-Marxist Approach to the Sociology of Nationalism, Doomed Nations and Doomed Schemes,” Praxis International 7 (1987): 79–89; and for critique, E. Nimni, “Marx, Engels, and the National Question,” in The Rights of Minority Cultures, ed. W. Kymlicka (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 57–75. The best overview of the Marxist engagement with national liberation struggles is W. Connor, The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy (Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1984), although the study neglects non-Communist Marxist traditions. 8. For the central importance of the Second International to our understanding of the Marxist engagement with nationalism, see A. Kriegel, “La IIe Internationale devant les questions nationales en Europe (1889–1914),” in Le Pain et les roses: Jalons pour une histoire des socialismes (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968), pp. 79–94; B. Jenkins and G. Minnerup, Citizens and Comrades: Socialism in a World of Nation States (London: Pluto Press, 1984), p. 42; and C. Weill, L’Internationale et l’autre: Les Relations inter-ethniques dans la IIe Internationale (Discussions et débats) (Paris: Arcantère, 1987). 9. G. Haupt, “Les Marxistes face à la question nationale: L’Histoire du probl ème,” in Les Marxistes et la question nationale, 1848–1914, G. Haupt, M. Löwy, and C. Weill (Paris: François Maspero, 1974), pp. 28–29. 10. Kriegel, “La IIe Internationale devant les questions nationales en Europe (1889–1914),” p. 82. 11. R. Debray, “Marxism and the National Question,” New Left Review, no. 105 (1977): 31. Shlomo Avineri uses the same astronomical metaphor in his “Marxism and Nationalism,” Journal of Contemporary History 26 (1991): 638. For critique of the Second International on the “national question,” with particular emphasis on Bauer’s brilliant but...

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