How Much Does Nation Formation Depend on Nationalism?
How Much Does Nation Formation Depend on Nationalism?

Summary/Abstract: Roman Szporluk's book touches on a sensmve issue in the history of Marxist thought. Because of this, and because it is based on a broad knowledge of Marx's and Engels's works, it enhances the already rich literature dedicated to the problem of nations and nationalism. In the contrast between the views of Marx and Engels on the one hand and Friedrich List on the other, Szporluk sees a concentrated form of the tension between internationalism and nationalism. He convincingly discusses the historical development of nations in the second half of the nineteenth century as being more consistent with List's ideas than with those of Marx and Engels in 1848, but he is less convincing in discussing why Marxist theory and practice allegedly abandoned an internationalist position in favor of "nationalism." [...]

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