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Nationalism and culture - Rudolf Rocker

German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's classic text on nationalism and culture.

18. The Nation in the Light of Modern Race Theories

Race research and race theory Concerning the unity of the genus man The alleged original races of Europe Concernlng the concept "race." the discovery of the bloodgroups and the race Physical characters and mental qualities Gobineau's theory of the inequality of the races of men The Aryans history as race conflict Race theory and seignorial right Chamberlain's race theories Chamberlain and Gobineau the german as the…

17. The Nation as Community of Language

The nation as community of language Language and culture Foreign constituents in language Purism and the development of language Literary language and popular speech Religion, science, art, profession, etc., as mediators of new language values Language and imagery The significance of loanwords in language development Oriental symbolism in language Foreign material in native guise Speech and thought Nature and…

16. The Nation as Community of Morals, Custom and Interest

9. Liberal Ideas in Europe and America

Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism Priestley and Richard Price Thomas Paine concerning state and society William Godwin's political justice Libertarian tendencies in America From Jefferson to Thoreau Liberal ideas in German literature Lessing on State and Church Herder's philosophy of history Schiller's esthetic of culture Lichtenberg and Seume The personality of Goethe Wieland's Goldner Spiegel Jean Paul Holderlin's…

8. The Doctrine of the Social Contract

The humanists and the doctrine of the social contract, man as the measure of things The origin of the doctrine of natural rights The natural rights of the cynics and stoics till Zeno Natural right and Absolutism, the time of the social Utopias Thomas More and Francois Rabelais The monarchomachi languet's vindiciae contra tyrannos The Dutch Protective League Jesuitism and temporal power Francisco Suarez and the …

7. Absolutism - An Obstacle to Economic Development

The fable of the nationalist state as a furtherer of cultural development- the decline of industry and decay of economy The period of wars and reversion to barbarism Commercial Capital and Absolutism Manufacture and Mercantilism The State as creator of economic monopolies Regimentation of economics by monarchies Colbert and the economic dictatorship in France The English monarchy and traffic in monopolies The East…

6. The Reformation and the New State

The reformation and the social folk movements of the middle ages The church and the princes in the north Luther's attitude toward the State Protestantism as a phase of princely Absolutism Nationalism as inner enslavement, the peasant revolt Wycliffe and the reformation in England The hussite movement Calixtines and Taborites War as a source of Despotism Chelcicky, a reformer of Church and State Protes-tantism in…

5. The Rise of the National State

The revolt of the communities The age of federalism Personal freedom and social union The community of christendom The decline of medieval culture The dissolution of communal institutions Mercantilism The great discoveries Decline of the papal power The janus head of the renaissance The revolt of the individual The "master man" people becomes mob The national state Machiavelli's Principe National unity as a tool of…

3. The Middle Ages: Church and State

The fundamental principle of power Christianity and the state Papism Augustine's city of god The holy church The struggle for world dominion Gregory VII, innocent III The effect of power on its possessors Rome and the germans Germanic caesarism The struggle for rome The foreign dominion The submersion of old social institutions Aristocracy and royalty Feudalism and serfdom The frankish empire Charlemagne and the…

1. The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism

The will to power as a historical factor Science and historical concepts The insufficiency of economic materialism The laws of physical life and "The physics of society" The significance of conditions of production The expeditions of Alexander The Crusades Papism and heresy Power as a hindrance and obstruction to economic evolution The fatalism of "historic necessities" and of the "historic mission" Economic…

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