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@sim Nationalism is simply a social hack to expand humanity's natural tribal instincts to a larger scale (the national scale). Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on your point-of-view and of what is intended to do with it. It's a force multiplier for humanity, force that can be used for good or bad.
It's important to note that the vast majority of its critics, especially liberal or communist critiques of it, are hypocritical, as they rely on exactly the same, sometimes shifted to a bigger scale or renaming things a bit to avoid "icky" associations.