Title: Confirmation for Marxists, but not much analysis
Product review: Hobsbawn's book is quite over rated as a text about nationalism. Those fellow idiological readers who share Hobsbawn's delight in exposing the "myths" of nationalism and nations will of course find it "brilliant and insightful", but one wonders if they admire the analysis, or just agree with his conclusion? Hobsbawm's strongly implied conclusion that nationalism and nations are "on the way out" means for him that so is war and conflict. But one wonders if for all the faults of nationalism and nations if the institutions and arrangements that replace them will be any better. There was war, slavery and injustice long before the 18th century, whether systems were empires or feudal, so why should the successors of nations be any better. Oh, I forgot if we all think like Hobsbawm "we can unite."
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