16 Facts About Left-wing nationalism

Left-wing nationalism or leftist nationalism, known as social nationalism, is a form of nationalism based upon national self-determination, popular sovereignty, national self-interest, and left-wing political positions such as social equality.

Left-wing nationalism often stands in contrast to right-wing politics and right-wing nationalism.

Classical Marxists have unanimously claimed that Left-wing nationalism is a bourgeois phenomenon that is not associated with Marxism.

Marx and Engels evaluated progressive Left-wing nationalism as involving the destruction of feudalism and believed that it was a beneficial step, but they evaluated Left-wing nationalism detrimental to the evolution of international class struggle as reactionary and necessary to be destroyed.

Left-wing nationalism has inspired many Latin American military personnel, who are receptive to this doctrine because of the repeated interference of the United States in the political and economic affairs of their countries and the social misery in the continent.

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The 1830s saw the more vocal expression of a liberal and republican Left-wing nationalism which was silenced with the rebellions of 1837 and 1838.

Right-wing Left-wing nationalism has never supported such measures, which is one of the major differences between the two.

Leftist Left-wing nationalism has been more eager to dispense with historical Canadian symbols associated with Canada's British colonial heritage, such as the Canadian Red Ensign or even the monarchy.

English Canadian leftist Left-wing nationalism has historically been represented by most of Canada's socialist parties, factions with the social-democratic New Democratic Party and in a more diluted form in some elements of the Liberal Party of Canada, manifesting itself in pressure groups such as the Council of Canadians.

Right-wing Left-wing nationalism continues to exist in Canada, but it tends to be much less concerned with integration into North America, especially since the Conservative Party embraced free trade after 1988.

The original left-wing nationalists endorsed civic nationalism which defined the nation as a daily plebiscite and as formed by the subjective will to live together.

In practice, motivated by the dual idea of liberating areas from conservative rule and that those liberated peoples could be absorbed into the civic nation, French left-wing nationalism often ended up justifying or rationalising imperialism, notably in the case of Algeria.

France's centralist left-wing nationalism was at times resisted by provincial left-wing groups who saw its Paris-focussed cultural and administrative centralism as little different in practice to right-wing French nationalism.

Since World War II, right-wing Irish Left-wing nationalism has been a rare force in the Republic of Ireland, espoused primarily by small, often short-lived organisations.

The term Left-wing nationalism is used nearly exclusively for the right-wing national democracy of Roman Dmowski and other officially far-right movements such as National Radical Camp and National Revival of Poland.

Nowadays, notable parties and organizations that come the closest to the idea of a left-wing nationalism are Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland under the leadership of Andrzej Lepper and Zmiana led by Mateusz Piskorski.