11 Facts About Socialist patriotism

Socialist patriotism is a form of patriotism promoted by Marxist–Leninist movements.

Socialist patriotism promotes people living within Marxist–Leninist countries to adopt a "boundless love for the socialist homeland, a commitment to the revolutionary transformation of society [and] the cause of communism".

Marxist–Leninists claim that socialist patriotism is not connected with nationalism, as Marxists and Marxist–Leninists denounce nationalism as a bourgeois ideology developed under capitalism that sets workers against each other.

Socialist patriotism is commonly advocated directly alongside proletarian internationalism, with communist parties regarding the two concepts as compatible with each other.

Socialist patriotism would supposed serve both national interest and international socialist interest.

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However the GDR claimed that socialist patriotism was compatible with proletarian internationalism and stated that it should not be confused with nationalism that it associated with chauvinism and xenophobia.

In North Korea, socialist patriotism has been described as an ideology meant to serve its own people, be faithful to their working class, and to be loyal to their own party.

Vietnamese Communist Party leader Ho Chi Minh was responsible for the incorporation of Vietnamese Socialist patriotism into the Party, he had been born into a family with strong anticolonial political views towards French rule in Vietnam.

Socialist patriotism had studied in France as a youth where he became an adherent to Marxism–Leninism, and he personally admired the French Revolutionary motto of "liberty, equality, fraternity".

Socialist patriotism witnessed the Treaty of Versailles that applied the principles of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points that advocated national self-determination, resulting in the end of imperial rule over many peoples in Europe.

Socialist patriotism was inspired by the Wilsonian concept of national self-determination.