11-27-2019, 12:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2019, 12:09 AM by Eric the Green.)
(11-26-2019, 07:44 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Nationalism (Brown) and working class movements (Red) meet on my diagram, so it's not a surprise for me. Scottish and Irish nationalists are mostly left-leaning. More hardcore examples of left-leaning governments with strong nationalist sentiments are Belarus and Venezuela. Israel was originally of the same variety.
I doubt these conclusions can be made.
Venezuela's cannot any longer be called a left wing government, and I don't see much nationalism especially since it's being propped up by Russia and Cuba. Anti-American, sure. But that's not enough to be considered "nationalist."
Belarus as far as I know is just an authoritarian state that has no nationalist aspirations beyond I presume preserving its national rights from Russia. On the other hand, it might soon seek to rejoin Russia.
Scottish nationalists within the UK seem to be left leaning, but not necessarily working class movement-dominated. Irish nationalists are Catholics, not part of a working class movement.
Nationalism consists of one or more of these traits, as far as I can tell:
A movement to free a colony or conquered territory of imperialist rule and define itself as a nation.
A movement of a people to overthrow feudal aristocratic or otherwise localized rule in a certain territory and declare itself a nation.
A nation with an ambitious (usually tyrannical) leader that aspires to make the nation more powerful, including the aspiration to conquer and rule other nations that it considers inferior and to assert its national greatness.
A group such as an oppressed race or religion that seeks to establish a nation to promote and protect that group.
A racial or religious group that seeks to define itself as a nation so that it can exclude other races or religions and discriminate against them or oppress them or deny them entry.
A governmental entity or empire ruled by one group that seeks to consolidate its rule and its culture by oppressing or eliminating or re-educating and imposing its culture on other groups within its rule.