Socialist Nationalist Ideology
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A Socialist Nationalist Ideology is a nationalist ideology that combines socialist economic principles with national liberation and anti-imperialist struggle.
- AKA: Socialist Nationalism, Left-Wing Nationalism, National Socialism (left-wing), Anti-Colonial Socialism, Liberation Nationalism.
- Context:
- It can typically merge class struggle with national independence against foreign domination.
- It can typically advocate economic sovereignty through national control of resources and industry.
- It can typically mobilize working classes and peasantry for national revolution.
- It can often oppose both capitalist imperialism and bourgeois nationalism.
- It can often promote social equality within national frameworks.
- It can often conflict with international socialism over national particulars versus universal class solidarity.
- It can range from being a Democratic Socialist Nationalist Ideology to being an Authoritarian Socialist Nationalist Ideology, depending on its political structure.
- It can range from being a Marxist Socialist Nationalist Ideology to being a Non-Marxist Socialist Nationalist Ideology, depending on its theoretical base.
- It can range from being a Revolutionary Socialist Nationalist Ideology to being a Reformist Socialist Nationalist Ideology, depending on its change method.
- It can range from being an Internationalist Socialist Nationalist Ideology to being an Isolationist Socialist Nationalist Ideology, depending on its foreign relations.
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- Examples:
- Anti-Colonial Socialist Nationalisms, such as:
- Post-Colonial Socialist Nationalisms, such as:
- African Socialism including Ujamaa in Tanzania.
- Arab Socialism through Ba'athism and Nasserism.
- Bolivarian Socialism in Venezuela.
- European Socialist Nationalisms, such as:
- Irish Republican Socialism combining national liberation with working-class politics.
- Basque Left Nationalism merging independence with socialism.
- Scottish Socialist Nationalism linking self-determination to social justice.
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- Counter-Examples:
- International Communism, which rejects national divisions for global proletarian unity.
- National Socialism (Nazism), which despite the name was anti-socialist and far-right.
- Liberal Nationalist Ideology, which accepts capitalist economy with national sovereignty.
- See: Nationalist Ideology, Socialist Ideology, Anti-Imperialism, National Liberation Movement, Third World Socialism, Dependency Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Class Struggle, Economic Nationalism, Resource Sovereignty.