Trigonometry
21st June 2011, 05:34
I've often thought of a scenario that if today a country such as Australia had become socialist, then surely it could not survive alone, as by some means or other they would be eliminated by the other bourgeois powers and its un-class conscious minions.
Similarly alike how many formerly socialist groups were forced into a nationalistic path by warfare, and the lack of true internationalism of workers to avoid the outbreak of WWI. All situations owing the average mans strong 'nation consciousness' to the more important 'class consciousness' and the bougeosies exploitation of so.
But here I am thinking, today the world is still being contest by many bourgeois classes (rise of the Chinese, an economic threat to American ruling class). However as a result of communication improvements which has always acted to help uphold large empires of the past to glue together large populations (e.g. Rome and with its destruction the reduction of the subjects to a multitude of smaller principalities, or the Mongol empire and with its destruction the reduction to a multitude of smaller khanates), we are seeing greater multicultural societies, there are more and more internationalist movements (e.g. wikileaks). A mixing of cultures (e.g. American kids and Japanese anime/Chinese kids listening to R&B), and even the changing perspective on things such as racism, now viewed by and large as in correct and stigmatised compared to attitudes even 50 years ago.
All this seems to me as a developing of an international identity that I speculate will make redundant the concept of nations with time, particularly as one bourgeois class should become dominant over all others, and what this outgrowing of nationhood would mean for class consciousness.
In short what I am pondering is that, might it be more likely that an cosmopolitan world be created only then leading to a sharper class consciousness, rather than through the development of class consciousness that a borderless cosmopolitan world be created?
Similarly alike how many formerly socialist groups were forced into a nationalistic path by warfare, and the lack of true internationalism of workers to avoid the outbreak of WWI. All situations owing the average mans strong 'nation consciousness' to the more important 'class consciousness' and the bougeosies exploitation of so.
But here I am thinking, today the world is still being contest by many bourgeois classes (rise of the Chinese, an economic threat to American ruling class). However as a result of communication improvements which has always acted to help uphold large empires of the past to glue together large populations (e.g. Rome and with its destruction the reduction of the subjects to a multitude of smaller principalities, or the Mongol empire and with its destruction the reduction to a multitude of smaller khanates), we are seeing greater multicultural societies, there are more and more internationalist movements (e.g. wikileaks). A mixing of cultures (e.g. American kids and Japanese anime/Chinese kids listening to R&B), and even the changing perspective on things such as racism, now viewed by and large as in correct and stigmatised compared to attitudes even 50 years ago.
All this seems to me as a developing of an international identity that I speculate will make redundant the concept of nations with time, particularly as one bourgeois class should become dominant over all others, and what this outgrowing of nationhood would mean for class consciousness.
In short what I am pondering is that, might it be more likely that an cosmopolitan world be created only then leading to a sharper class consciousness, rather than through the development of class consciousness that a borderless cosmopolitan world be created?