I just abandoned my own post because it got too long and rambling and lost sight of the main point.
It was going to be about the negation (by liberalism, by nationalism, by Marxism though I hadn't gotten to writing anything about that) of rights held by any unit - any collective - larger than the individual and smaller than the state. Which is rather a huge deviation from historic human experience built around such collectives.
Is nationalism (esp. fascism) really responsible for that or is it merely a response to the innate lack of these social layers in modernity?
