But no matter how skilfully employed, modern statecraft and the application of technology cannot effectively suppress the very real tensions which remain unresolved. They are apparent in the political life of every post-colonial nationalist regime in the world. In numerous cases they appear as separatist movements based on ethnic identities, proofs of the incomplete resolution of ‘the national question.’ More significantly, they often appear as fervently anti-modern, anti-Western strands of politics, rejecting capitalism too for its association with modernism and the West and preaching either a fundamentalist cultural revival or a utopian millennialism. There too the fragility of the forced resolution by nationalism of the contradiction between capital and the people-nation is shown up (Chatterjee 170).
Chatterjee, Partha. ”The Cunning of Reason.” Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse. University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp. 167-170.