Left nationalism

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The term left nationalism describes a form of inclusive nationalism , which is often based on equality , popular sovereignty ( sovereignty ) and national self-determination . The ideologies of national communism , national Bolshevism and national socialism are closely related to left-wing nationalism. A variety of left nationalism is Arab socialism , which u. a. also amalgamated Islamist elements.

Historical left nationalism

Left nationalism has its roots in Jacobinism of the French Revolution of 1789. Over time, it also encompassed anti-imperialism and is in contrast to right- wing exclusive nationalism, although in the past marginal excesses of left nationalism also included intolerance and racial prejudice.

Known left-nationalist movements in history are the Indian National Congress (INC), which under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi , the independence of India sought that of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded, Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) under Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu , the Kemalist national Communist Ulusalcılık- or Aydınlık movement under the leadership of the Fatherland Party Doğu Perinçeks , the Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence and during the Northern Ireland conflict , as well as the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa under Nelson Mandela , who fought against apartheid at the time . The chairman of the left-wing pan-African party Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, Julius Malema , even represents openly racist positions.

Left nationalism also appeared in more authoritarian forms: the Arab-Socialist Ba'ath parties in Syria and Iraq support pan-Arabism and state socialism . The Nasserism also represented a pan-Arab brand of left nationalism. The Yugoslav dictator and president of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito supported a left-nationalist Pan Südslawismus .

present

Some parties in the former Eastern Bloc countries such as the Slovak Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) or the Romanian Social Democrats of the PSD are classified as left-wing nationalists, in Western Europe the Scottish National Party (SNP), which advocates an independent Scotland and ruled to this day .

The cultural sociologist Thomas Wagner attested the New Right in Germany a tendency towards left nationalism. Wagner's study of the literature of the New Right formed the basis for his 2017 published work Die Angstmacher: 1968 and the New Right . Die Welt also classifies Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro of the Socialist Unity Party of Venezuela (PSUV, the exact translation is “United Socialist Party of Venezuela”) as left-wing nationalist.

Individual evidence

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  10. Guaidó claims to have secretly met with the military in Venezuela welt.de, "New York Times" guest article from January 31, 2019 (accessed on January 31, 2019)