ANOTAÇÕES SOBRE A MUNDIALIZAÇÃO E A QUESTÃO NACIONAL

Abstract

This article discusses the conditions of the emergence of the nation-state in the European context of the expansion of industrial capitalism. In the struggle for the subordination of localism, the nation was the space for the affirmation of modernity. Today, the same capitalist expansion overflows the boundaries of the nation-states and limits their action. In the process of globalization, the transnational identities it creates revindicate the monopoly of modernity. In this context, the author discusses the opposites universalism/particularism, and global/national in political, cultural and market dimensions. The cultural dimension is considered an indispensable support for the creation of colletive identities, a foundation for the action of market and State mechanisms.