Welcome to diving into the record where we finally give up the number system for now a topic system episode.

Or we can just get weird and make it like a Roman numeral system with maybe like dot A dot B dot C said or something like that

Just go full prints on it. Nonetheless, this is part one of a series on nationalism's plural,

both methodological and otherwise, although I don't know today, originally we were going to talk about methodological nationalism and I realized like, well, fuck, we have to talk about what nationalism is and like the national question and all the bizarre ass ways that this has tied Marxism and anarchism into a goddamn not for most of its history I think these are the

questions interestingly that Marx and Ingalls themselves are the least consistent on and the ones that we

actually have the most activism on and I think I'm gonna you know one of the reasons why I wanted to talk

about methodological nationalism beyond just nationalism to court is that some of

this is methodological but some of this is methodological,

but some of this is actually ideological,

like there is an ideological component

of nationalism, post second international that we kind of have to deal with because it's kind of similar to the idea about capital that there's a paradox in the dialectical movement according to the way Marxists understood this from the second international forward in that developing capital under certain egeses is actually good because it develops productive capacity,

but there's a counter tendency according to classical Marxists of the tendency of the right of profit to fall that get bound up in each other and one of the things that I've talked to people about that ties into this actually directly is Bucharen's theory of imperialism and Lenin's subsequent development and encapsulation. I mean he did and

encapsulation I mean he did there's differences between

Leonard Bukkarn but theory of imperialism is actually tied up and trying to answer the

question of these two opposing tendencies, which is the tendency of capital development and capital monopolization, which creates the preconditions for a lot of socialism, according to Ingalls and

socialism utopian and scientific.

But the tendency of the rate of the fall,

rate of profits fall,

either in crisis theory or a miseration theory depending on what period of Berkshire reading,

which is a completely different tendency.

The theory of imperialism, and one thing I'm going to say as we talk about this because the reasons why I want to do nationalisms is I want to talk about imperialism and there's a bunch of elephants in the room when we talk about this.

But I tend to agree with Stephen Hamel of the measures. the room when we talk about this. Yeah.

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