The Nation-State: A Liberal Aberration

Liberal capitalism’s divide-and-conquer strategy

Brecht Jonkers argues that the liberal nation-state is a capitalist tool of divide-and-conquer, opposed to the diverse yet unified civilisation-states that have shaped human history.

The concept of the nation-state and the “one state for each ethnic group” is a modern liberal concept, without value for the vast majority of the world population, and with …