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Niccolo Soldo's avatar

Featured your piece in this weekend's Saturday Commentary and Review

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/saturday-commentary-and-review-100

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Phillip's avatar

Great article. Who was the artist responsible for the very striking graphic?

The important thing IMHO is to rethink what a national or ethnonationalist project would entail under real-world conditions. There was an America before there was a United States. The distinction between those who identify as Americans and those who define themselves as US citizens is critical. People have choices to make: direct loyalty to the state and to fellow citizens or to the nation (however defined).

Furthermore, we all need to remember that modern nationalism was in most instances a top-down attempt to mobilise the masses and deploy them to the advantage of the elites of various nation-states. The situation today is very different. North American whites can only form a self-conscious bloc in defiance of the elite and many, if not most, BIPOC fellow-citizens. Ethno-nationalist or tribalist movements will have to develop in opposition to the state and to the corporate funded and state-aligned 'civil society'. Given the fact that citizenship is increasingly a formality, civic nationalism is a sick joke and the regime's institutions haemorrhaging whatever legitimacy they might once have had, there will be opportunities aplenty in the years ahead.

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