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Author Forman, Michael, 1956-

Title Nationalism and the international labor movement : the idea of the nation in socialist and anarchist theory / Michael Forman
Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Internationalism and Nations -- 1. Workers of the World: International Solidarity and the Working Men's Association -- Anarchy and Federation: Bakunin -- The Red Republicans: Marx and Engels -- Solidarity and the Democratic Project -- 2. The Nationalities Question Revisited: Multinationalism and the Second International -- The Right of Nations to Self-Determination: Lenin -- Internationalism and the National Question: Luxemburg -- The Awakening of Multinationalism: Bauer
Movements and the Legacy of the Second International -- 3. Solidarity for One Country: The Third International, Nationalism, and Nation Building -- The Nationalization of Socialism: Stalin -- Hegemony and National Unity: Gramsci -- National Liberation Marxism -- 4. Between Cosmopolitan Intent and Self-Determination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon. Against both those who argue that the radical tradition has ignored and underestimated nationalism and those who accuse it of economic reductionism, this careful analysis of the idea of the nation as it was developed in the work of the major thinkers of the international labor movement reveals evidence of how seriously they grappled with nationalism. Forman examines the relationships among ethnic and civic nationality, national self-determination, republican institutions, and the process of globalization from the perspective of the post-Soviet era and in the light of social theory and Kant's ideas about cosmopolitan right
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nationalism.
Socialism -- History
Anarchism -- History
nationalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
Anarchism
Nationalism
Socialism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271072500
0271072504
9780271072487
0271072482