Peuple-nation, peuple-polis

Que le peuple traverse, comme agence politique, les dimensions de la nation et de l'état : une incarnation historique dans les rapports entre Irlandais émigrés dans l'Angleterre des années de l'Union (1800), et Radicals anglais. "There is thus a clear consecutive alliance between the Irish nationalism and English Radicalisme between 1790 and 1850" (EP Thompson, 482). The Irish "[bringing] their revolutionary inheritance with them" (483). "It was an advantage to the employers, at a time when precision engineering coexisted with tunnelling by means of shovel and pick, to be able to call upon both types of labour [English and Irish immigrant]. But the price which had to be paid was the confluence of sophisticated political Radicalism with a more primitive [agrarian riots] and excitable revolutionism." (484).