Class and Nation: Competing Explanatory Systems
Class and Nation: Competing Explanatory Systems

Summary/Abstract: The series of articles that follows confront a fundamental question of socio-political development-the nature of social allegiances, and the two main classification systems that have been proposed to explain them-class and nation. All of the articles revolve around issues raised by Roman Szporluk in his book Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List, published by the Oxford University Press in the spring of 1988. Readers who would like to enter fully into the themes of the articles may wish to read Szporluk's book first, but this is not a prerequisite, since the issues raised are of such far-reaching importance in the debate over the relationship between social and political explanations, not to mention the theory of nationalism, that each article stands on its own as a commentary on these issues. [...]

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