The imperialistic “nation” and “national consciousness” (XX)
EUSKAL HERRIA AND THE KINGDOM OF NABARRE, OR THE BASQUE PEOPLE AND ITS STATE, AGAINST FRENCH-SPANISH IMPERIALISM XX – The imperialistic “nation” and “national consciousness” Iñaki Aginaga and Felipe Campo I The historical process by which the oppressive States came to establish their imperialism does condition their ideology in this regard. English constitutionalism: ideologically, historically and sociologically considered, takes a form politically concrete, embodied and determined – in its foundations and even in its fictions – in correspondence with the structure of real power that constitutes it. It does always refer to the historical and sociological mediation and continuity of the preceding political institutions, which therefore – and unlike the French-Spanish imperialism – are formally maintained. As regards terminology, in England and its Empire, the terms and concepts of People, Nation and State did not exist with the meaning, value and function th...