The key concepts of
transnationalism can be described as follows: The primary political unit
is the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic or gender) and not the
individual. Groups are divided into oppressors versus victims, which is
largely the Hegelian-Marxian dichotomy between privileged versus
oppressed groups. Institutions within society must provide
representation to the diverse groups, i.e. group proportionalism is to
substitute for the individual vote that heretofore formed the basis of
constitutional democracy in the United States. On the global level,
transnationalism, as the word conveys, advocates termination of the
nation-state in favor of world citizenship that will construct some form
of world governance subject to “international law.” The author discusses
the implications of transnational ideology for democracy in the United
States, which he connects with the post Zionists in Israel.