we live in a world of nations and thus in a world of national repression
your "wonderful things" will not solve this, because the nation-state is a capitalist phenomenon, and capitalism doesnt just refer to a society where a mode of production is dominant but also a contradiction between bourgeois social relations and the forces of production
even the united states has had plenty of its own national mythmaking practices despite lacking the same supposedly clear-cut organic community that nations are ideally founded upon
in retrospect it was perhaps a mistake for lenin to have advocated for the right of nations to self-determination, or at the very least it should have been understood as a temporary compromise
>>1387that is the status of every nation-state
"imperial" means something very different today from how it was understood originally
the internal politics of a country, "the special bodies of armed men", is just as "imperial"