Left-Wing Nationalism

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Not to be confused with National Socialism or Welfare Chauvinism.

Left-Wing Nationalism or Socialist Nationalism, shortened to LeftNat, is an economically left-wing, nationalist, civically variable and culturally neutral ideology which supports a File:Soc.png Socialist economy where the means of production are either directly owned by socialist communes or by a centralized proletarian state, in combination with monoculturalism, popular sovereignty, egalitarianism and strong rights for the workers, anti-imperialism and establishment of a nationalist worker's state, and supports both international solidarity and armed struggle. LeftNat believes that Socialism is great for his people and culture, and often rejects ethnic and/or racial nationalism, instead opting for civic and/or cultural nationalism and patriotism, although, there are some ethnic/racial left-wing nationalists. Due to LeftNat's nationalist stance, this causes him to butt heads with a lot of other leftists insisting nationalism isn't the "bourgeois concept" they say it is as that title would go to globalism instead, which he would tend to call it something akin to "bourgeois nationalism".


History

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  Assyria/Beth-Nahrin

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  Armenia

Left-Wing Nationalists have played a crucial role in Armenian history. The first main Armenian Left-Wing Nationalist group was the Armenian Revolutionary Federation also known as Dashnaks. It was founded by 3 Armenians in the Russian Empire (Stepan Zorian, Christapor Mikaelian, and Simon Zavarian) with the goal of gaining autonomy in Armenian areas of the Ottoman Empire through means of violent rebellion. They had adopted a program that included socialism and agrarian reform as well as freedom of speech, press, and religion. They enjoyed support from the Tsarist government of Russia and participated in many clashes with Azeri (then known as Caucasian Tatar) nationalists. They then blamed many of the anti-Armenian massacres committed by Azeris on the Tsarist government for refusing to take action to stop them. They organized Fedayi[2] groups in which they would clash with Kurdish tribes over land. After the   Young Turks overthrew the Sultan, Dashnaks became a legal party and some Armenians got seats in parliment, but they didn't get the reforms they were hoping for and cut ties with the Young Turks in 1912. During the Armenian genocide in 1915, many leaders of Dashnaks were killed by the Ottoman military and many lead resistance against the genocide by the Ottomans, specifically in Van. After the genocide, many Dashnaks member vowed to take revenge by killing the perpetrators of the genocide as well as the perpetrators of the 1918 massacre of Armenians in Baku. These assassinations (now known as Operation Nemesis) took place between 1920 and 1922 and assassinated many major Turkish and Azerbaijani officials involved in the genocide and massacres. Some of the most notable assassinated include: Talaat Pasha (one of the 3 rulers of the Ottoman empire at the time of the genocide and considered to be an architect of it), Fatali Khan Khoyski (first prime minister of Azerbaijan), and Cemal Pasha (another one of the 3 rulers of the Ottoman empire at the time of the genocide and like Talaat is widely considered to be an architect of it along with Enver Pasha). Dashnaks held important government positions in the short lived First Republic of Armenia and fought to take Shushi from Azerbaijan. After the Soviets invaded Armenia and Azerbaijan, the ARF was banned and its leaders were exiled to primarily Lebanon where they participated in conflicts there. During World War 2, many exiled Dashnaks members decided to side with the   Nazis in the Armenian Legion because they promised an independent Armenia. In 1975, the 60 anniversary of the Armenian genocide, a group of Armenians in Beirut, Lebanon formed a group known as the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia or ASALA. Its ideology was based on a fusion of   Marxism–Leninism and Armenian nationalism, seeking to unite the Armenian SSR with Artsakh, Nakhichevan, and all of former western Armenia into a single Armenian state under the Armenian SSR. Most of their attacks were aimed at Turkish diplomats and their attacks resulted in the deaths of around 46 people. They developed ties with other leftist minority groups in Lebanon such as the   Kurdistan Workers' Party and the   Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. After an attack on Orly airport near Paris in 1983, the group split between those who agreed with it and those who disagreed with it leading to 2 separate groups, ASALA-Militant lead by Hagop Hagopian and ASALA-Revolutionary Movement lead by Armenian-American Monte Melkonian. They started to slowly fall apart after this split and the last attack claim by ASALA was in 1997. Monte Melkonian went on to command the Artsakhi army in the First Nagorno-Karabakh war and became the national hero of Armenia after his death.

  West Papua

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  Catalonia

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  Basque Country

The main Basque Left-Wing Nationalist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Liberty) or ETA, was originally started as a Basque student group known as Ekin founded in the 1950s. The group ETA itself was founded in 1959 as Aberri Ta Askatasuna or ATA but since in some Basque dialects ata means duck, they decided to change it to ETA. They were largely inspired by   Marxism and Basque Nationalism as well as the Basque   Independence Anarchist Federico Krutwig. They held their first assembly in Bayonne, France in 1962 and held later assemblies in later years in which they affirmed their   Anti-Capitalist and   Anti-Imperialist positions. They started their attacks against the   Francoist government of Spain in 1968 when a police officer was shot dead trying to halt an ETA member. Their most famous attack, also known as Operación Ogro (Operation Ogre), was an assassination of then Spanish prime minister, Luis Carrero Blanco in which they blew up his car, launching him 20 feet into the air, giving him the nickname "Spain's First Astronaut" in Spain and the Basque Country. This assassination is commonly considered an important factor in the Spanish transition to democracy, as they had killed Franco's main successor. After the death of Franco and the Spanish transition to democracy, the group had lost much of the support it previously had. The   French government, which had previously leaved them alone due to Franco's large human rights abuses against Basques, no longer turned a blind eye to them. They signed a permanent ceasefire in 2011, destroyed their weapons in 2017, and dissolved entirely in 2018

  Bangladesh

After its 1971 liberation war, Bangladesh wrote its binding beliefs to be for "Secularism, Nationalism and Socialism". For a long time, Bengali nationalism was promoted in Bangladesh while excluding other minorities which led to President Ziaur Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to change Bengali nationalism to Bangladeshi nationalism where all citizens of the country is equal under the law. This new nationalism in Bangladesh has been promoted by the BNP and the Awami League calling for national unity and cultural promotion. However, the BNP would later promote Islamic unity as well and has excluded Hindus from the national unity while bringing together Bihari Muslims and Chakma Buddhists. This is different from Awami League's staunch secularist stance of the national identity uniting all religious minorities.

  Ireland

Irish nationalism has been left-wing nationalism since its mainstream inception. Early nationalists during the 19th century such as the United Irishmen in the 1790s, Young Irelanders in the 1840s, Fenian Brotherhood in the 1880s, as well as Sinn Féin, and Fianna Fáil in the 1920s all styled themselves in various ways after French left-wing radicalism and republicanism. This combination of nationalism with left-wing positions was possible as the nation state they sought was envisaged against the backdrop of the more socially conservative and pluri-national state of the   United Kingdom.

  Scotland, UK  

The Scottish independence movement is mainly left-wing and is spearheaded by the Scottish National Party, who have been on the centre-left since the 1970s. There are other political parties from the political left in favour of Scottish independence, namely the Scottish Green Party, the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity.

  Taiwan

Taiwan's left-wing nationalist movement tends to emphasize a "Taiwanese identity" separated from the   People's Republic of China and from the   Republic of China itself. As a result, their left-wing nationalism takes a   pro-American stand to counter the PRC's imperialism, even though it has been influenced by Western socialist movements, including   Leninism.

Beliefs

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Personality

LeftNat like his Father is a pretty patriotic individual, but because of his mother he is also embodies the stereotypes of an economic leftist. LeftNat is happy to debate with his fellow Leftists about stuff like economics but will later find himself in a debate with them over the nation with LeftNat arguing it's against the Left's own interests to support things like globalism which is pioneered by the rich capitalists.

How to Draw

 
Flag of Left-Wing Nationalism
  1. Draw a ball,
  2. Colour it red
  3. In the centre, draw a golden flag coming from the bottom,
  4. Add the eyes and you're done!
Color Name HEX RGB
Red #ED1D26 237, 29, 38
Gold #FFCC00 255, 204, 0


Relationships

Friends

Frenemies

  •   Black Nationalism - Nationalism is great, Racism is not.
  •   Ethnocacerism - Did you not just hear what I said? What is it oppressed minorities who face oppression shouldn't go the other way and start genociding majorities. The nationalism and separtism is based though.
  •   National Conservatism - Based nationalist however is too conservative and capitalist.
  •   National Libertarianism - Great you're a nationalist and all but how do you expect to preserve your nation and it's borders with a minimal state?
  •   Kemalism - Thank you for allowing the leftist nationalist-Kemalist Kadro magazine to be published for 3 years!
  •   National Liberalism - We disagree on most stuff but enjoyed celebrating Brexit with you fellow nationalist.
  •   Strasserism - Good economics but too far-right for my liking, would definitely prefer working with you than with   National Socialism and   Fascism though.
  •   National Bolshevism - Same as the Strasserism just you go a bit far in terms of economics. Any chance I can join the GANG soon?
  •   Marxism–Leninism - Got the right idea economically just goes a bit too far, also drop the internationalism.
  •   Social Democracy - Yeah, you're pretty centrist but you're step to establishing socialism.
  •   Paternalistic Conservatism - You're basically just   Conservatism but with more welfare policies. Bearable and a much better alternative to regular conservatism.
  •   Welfare Chauvinism - Cool economics, albeit moderate. But too extreme culturally.
  •   Anarcho-Fascism - What?
  •   Right-Wing Populism - Nationalism is cool, but right-wing ideologies aren't.
  •   Labour Zionism - I mean you are both a nationalist and a socialist. But my anti-imperialist and arab nationalist followers hate you.
  •   Democratic Confederalism - The Kurdish fight for self determination is definitely a cause worth supporting, but I don't like how you're so anti-nationalist. Also stop hating on   Kemalism.

Enemies

Further Information

Literature

Wikipedia

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  1. ↑ as in the SNP are a party with a lot of variation in views
  2. ↑ armed Armenian groups for self defense
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