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Ideologically speaking is this a dichotomy? Only two categories?

If you are not an imperialist you are by default a nationalist.

If you are not a nationalist you must be an imperialist.

I’m trying to get away from the modern terms like “globalist” which seems to be just a rebranding of imperialism. The question is; is this a true dichotomy or is there an alternative?

Ideologically speaking is this a dichotomy? Only two categories? If you are not an imperialist you are by default a nationalist. If you are not a nationalist you must be an imperialist. I’m trying to get away from the modern terms like “globalist” which seems to be just a rebranding of imperialism. The question is; is this a true dichotomy or is there an alternative?

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Today we see nationalism as opposition to globalism, but in the past nationalism was opposed to regionalism. Take France for example. It was a country with many different languages. The southern half France spoke a different language, plus the border areas spoke various languages and dialects (you can include Brittany as a border area). Nationalism swept that all away. Nationalism be be thought of as globalism/imperialism in one country.

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Thanks. To turn this into a management issue; maybe this is like the “economy of scale”with a business. If a business expands from 10 to 50 employees that usually leads to much greater efficiency due to more specialized roles for the employees, better management structure etc. however once that business grows past a certain size it becomes very difficult to manage and you see reduced efficiency per capita. Like how all my friends that work in DC hide within a huge federal bureaucracy and never actually do jack shit.

Of course with a nation there are much more complex factors such as geography and ethnic make up.

I’m just thinking about the reigh size for a nation. Maybe ideological concepts don’t matter so much as overall per capita production. like a business you don’t want to add more employees if there will be no increased yield when your accountant does your yearly filing. What’s the use of all the headache of managing a massive business when you can derive the same benefit from working as a much smaller easily handled organization.