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a nation is an inherently exclusive phenomena and defines itself in opposition to what it is
- what counts as American in the US is often defined by what it is not. black people were not properly American until relatively recently, for example
- A socialist nation is therefore a contradiction
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most nations in Europe are younger than the US
- although βFranceβ or βGermanyβ pre-date the existence of the US, their governments and nationalisms do not
- itβs hard to blame the Russian or German social democrats for participating in the state when both countries were autocracies where even nominal representation in government was a novelty
- A lot of US leftists believe in what amounts to an inverted American exceptionalism
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