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State and capital: relatives?
One thing that bugged me for so long was this: are the state the capital relatives? Are they embryonically linked? If yes, then how come the state is expected to remain "neutral" in a capitalist world? Does it make sense? Unless we disagree, there is no way any state could be neutral then. Whatever it does to "portray" neutrality is to get more capital. More money. How can a state be "humanitarian"? States never had empathy right from birth. If they acted based on the nata
maiwenpheot
Sep 232 min read
Borders as a major theme in nation-state
When we think about nation-states today, we think about blocks, boxes, lines, and categories. As if they are one group.But is that really the case? Can or should nation-states really be defined by lines? Or I don’t maybe perhaps in my culture where the concept of “straight lines” don’t even exist? In Dinka, we have a word close to something like “round”, “oval” or other shapes that loop around, but not really linear in the way it is understood in English.How this idea came to
maiwenpheot
Sep 32 min read
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