Bourgeois nationalism
Bourgeois nationalism is a term from
Marxist phraseology. It refers to the practice of dividing people by
nationality,
race,
ethnicity, or
religion, which were alleged to deflect them from
class warfare. It is seen as a
divide and conquer strategy used by the
ruling classes to prevent the
working class from uniting against them (hence the Marxist slogan,
Workers of all countries, unite!).
Minority national cultures were not completely abolished in the
Soviet Union's official
Marxist-Leninist ideology. By Soviet definition, national cultures were to be "socialist by content and national by form", to be used to promote the official aims and values of the state. In practice, Russian national
culture and
language were
promoted, especially during and after
World War II, while
Ukrainian,
Georgian,
Armenian,
Lithuanian,
Jewish (see
Yevsektsiya) and other national movements and cultures were suppressed and their leaders
purged.
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Lenin's national policy*
Proletarian internationalism, an
antonym of
bourgeois nationalism.
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Marxism*
Nationalism*
Internationalism and Nationalism by Liu Shaoqi
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Marxism and Nationalism by Tom Lewis
