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The Enchanted Glass Tom Nairn Reviewed by MIKE MACNAIR In The Enchanted Glass Tom Nairn has produced a seathing attack on British monarchism, packed with illuminating sidelights on the nature of the British social and political formation.
He insists that the British: monarchy is central to the system of political authority and its various territories, and that it is intimately connected with "British" national dentity, the patriarchal family, and the political bankruptcy of the Labour and trade union Icaderships.
His book should be roquired reading for all those socialists who thìnk that the monarchy is an urumportant issue.
But The Enchanted Glass also contains a theoretical thesis which is falsc and wholly nega tive in its political implications.
Nairn sees British monarchism" as an exceptional and backward ideology as conpared with the rationaldemocratic idcologies of most states created since the French Revolution (1789): His explanation of this backwardness runs as follows.
He denics that the events of 1640-1714 in what is now 'Britain" were either a bourgeois revolution (as marxists think) or steps towards a liberal democracy (as liberals think).
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