Status Updates From Demokratisk konfederalism

Another ideological pillar of the nation-state is the sexism that pervades the entire society. Nation states enforce the exploitation of women and use them as a valuable reservoir of cheap labor. Thus, woman is both a sexual object and a commodity. She is a tool for the preservation of male power and Can at best become an accessory of the patriarchal male society.

If we would compare the nation state to a living God, then nationalism would be the correspondent religion. In this context, capitalist profit and the accumulation of capital, appear as categories shrouded in mystery. The nation-state’s hegemonic striving for power is in service of the maximization of profits. In this sense, nationalism appears as a quasi-religious justification for the divine nation-state.

It is often said that the nation-state is concerned with the fate of the common people. This is not true. It is, in fact, the national governor of the worldwide capitalist system, the vassal of capitalist modernity, which is more deeply entangled in the dominant structures of capital than we usually tend to assume. The nation-state is a colony of capital.

The nation-state is the backbone of the capitalist modernity. It’s bureaucracy secures the smooth functioning of the system, secures the basis of the production of goods, and secures the profits for the relevant economic actors… The nation-state domesticates the society in the name of capitalism, and alienates the community from its natural foundations.

The nation-state has also allocated a number of attributes that serve to replace older religiously rooted attributes such as nation, Fatherland, national flag, national anthem, and many others. Particularly notions like the unity of state and nation, serve to transcend the material political structures. They are, as such, reminiscent of the pre-state unity with God. They have been put in the place of the divine.