POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Religious Text, Industrial Revolution
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Lecture 7 - anderson"s nation Today, we think of nations = symbols. Tomb of the unknown solider. Signifies a moment that is to remember those who feel in battle for there nation. So what"s puzzling us about nations. Huge displacement creating a new group f people called works (proletariat) and capitalist the owners of the factories. Capitalist own everything works own nothing. Not communist vietnam v. cambodia. Marx"s prediction said that the proletarians would fight and over throw the. Because marx did not expect the idea of a nation to be so powerful. People were proud to be frenchmen and englishmen. People would be willing to die for there nation. All communities = imagined. Examples of other imagined communities. Sacred text => god"s word. Written in italian only a selected few could read and understand. High centers => closer to god. Kings and popes chosen by god. Changes in 16th and 17th century.
