Patrick Bond wrote: >Agreed, Doug, that's exactly the point of this definition of what I >take to be a progressive *nationalism* (namely that the power to >regenerate national sovereignties will only be constituted to a >large extent through radical international and more precisely >anti-world- state activism): What kind of national sovereignties? No country in Africa could go it alone in any meaningful way; there's got to be some kind of regional integration, with specialization, division of labor, etc. What is a nation-state in Africa, anyway? An inheritance of colonialism in both concept and practice, right? There are lots of ethnic/national tensions around state formation in your part of the world, aren't there? Doug
