Prethodno priopćenje
WHY ARE THERE NATION-STATES INSTEAD OF A WORLD-STATE?
Vjeran Katunarić
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This article critically examines the answers to the following questions: “Why
are there nation-states?”, i.e. “Why isn’t there only one nation-state?”, asked
by Jacques Bidet in his work General Theory of Modernity. In the first part of
the article, Bidet’s analogy between the emergence of nation-states and more
complex states such as the EU is discussed, with particular emphasis on the
possibilities of creating a worldwide democratic state, which Bidet innovatively
conceives as a guarantee of equality between nations. Still, in view of
the normative character of Bidet’s theory, the author raises doubts about the
possibility of clarifying Bidet’s assertion that “the time has not yet come for a
universal state-order”. In the second part of the article, the author attempts to
find an answer to Bidet’s questions with the help of Marx’s class analysis. On
the one hand, such an analysis makes it possible to explain why (worldwide)
capitalism benefits from “freezing” the extant order of nation-states. On the
other hand, not even Marx’s analysis makes it possible to elucidate the conditions
for building a worldwide state, particularly the one condition which Bidet
cares about most of all: a relation between nations characterised by equality
and lack of rivalry.
Ključne riječi
Jacques Bidet; theory of modernity; capitalism; nation-state; worldwide democratic state; Marx’s class analysis
Hrčak ID:
47209
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2009.
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