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Publisher excerpt from Imagined Communities
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A Verso-hosted excerpt from the introduction to the 2006 edition; it is not the complete book.
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Anderson argues that nations are imagined as horizontal comradeship even where inequality and exploitation persist.
- supports · publisher extract, ‘Concepts and Definitions,’ final paragraph
Anderson defines a nation as an imagined political community understood as limited and sovereign, without treating imagination as falsity.
- supports · publisher extract, ‘Concepts and Definitions,’ paragraphs 6–9
An assertion of national unity cannot establish equal membership across race, caste, class, gender, religion, language, region, citizenship, or Indigenous status.
- supports · publisher extract, final paragraph of ‘Concepts and Definitions’