Nationalism has been the ruin of one civilization after another, beginning with the earliest of them all, the Sumerian. City-states evoke a more fanatical loyalty than national states, and the Sumerian world, like the Ancient Greek world, was a world of city-states. This loyalty to local states, whatever their scale, produces international conflicts, and these become intolerable.
Surviving the Future, OUP, 1971
Conversation with Professor Kei Wakaizumi of the Kyoto Sangyo University.
March 28, 2007 at 12:38 pm
[...] we now call racism – also loom large in the early part of his Study. Earlier post on nationalism here and on racism [...]
November 6, 2007 at 10:33 pm
[...] a historian and a propagandist. On one matter he swam against the tide from the very beginning: nationalism. On racism, his views were clear from the first volume of the Study. He allowed himself to speak of [...]