'Imagine Communities'

This article challenges the differentiated concepts of Nation, Nationality, and Nationalism, and explores the classical sociological theories of Marxism and the social science to determine how the notion of nationalism may have been utilised in the effort of imperialism, and also capitalism, under the 'neurosis' of false self-consciousness.

Also, the notion of globalisation, and the transition from the proletariat 'bourgeoise' to the national bourgeoisie, is stated to add to the effects of Nationalism, and the false or imagined sense of community, comradeship, and the dichotomy between the idea of liberty and fascism becoming evermore blurred and catalytic.  

'The cultural roots of nationalism', and the phenomena of the imagined commune between strangers made uniform to the same community shows an anthropological effect in which hostility and segregation, or homogenisation, of the 'self' and the 'other' comes to the fore in the making-spectacle of the 'cultural artefacts', which become the foundations of an international, false-identity, and a form of imperialism: