Nationalism

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According to Anderson, the concept of nationhood didn't coalesce until the emergence of print capitalism, in the nineteenth century. That so many people, isolated by geography as well as by politics and class, should nevertheless feel they shared something in common - that they were countrymen and -women - may be another important factor in understanding the complex relationships surrounding the individual and his or her culture. For one, a sense of national identity arguably impeded Marx's inevitable worldwide communist revolution.