Independence for Scotland
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- FrdmOfSpch0
nationalism is redundant.
every country is sound.
lowimpakt
(Apr 24 07, 04:11)I think so. I think it would be great.
I think a lot of the modern secessionist parties offer a modern inclusive version of nationalism, not some atavistic vision based on blood or tribe.
turning the EU or parts of it into a sort of United States of Europe with a lot of autonomous mini-regions. That, you might say, was once the federalists' ultimate fantasy: a Europe that has banished nations, and therefore nationalism, and therefore the terrible conflicts to which nationalism has historically given rise.
But i'm also a realist as to way the EU functions, and its gritty determinism to hold on to its Congress of Vienna models.
The Scots or the Basque etc.. would have to adopt all the bad ways of all the sovereign nation-states - because that's just how the EU is. Patriotism, jingoism, distrust of other EU members. It would create more nationalism not less.