The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism by Fredy Perlman

The penetrating critique of nationalism, of both left and right. This is an essential essay for a critical understanding of nationalism.The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system, is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is true-er, namely that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts has led people to perpetrate holocausts. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism Fredy PerlmanBlack & Red Books, 1985Paperback64 Pages