Editing Left-Wing Nationalism (section)

====[[File:Shevchenko.png]] Shevchenkoism====
Taras Shevchenko was a famous Ukrainian poet and writer. Central motives of his masterpiece were [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|nationalism]], [[File:Patriotism.png]] [[Patriotism|patriotism]] and loyalty to his [[File:Cultural Nationalism.png]] [[Cultural Nationalism|culture]]. Shevchenko was born in a family of serfs. This fact explains the [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|nationalist]] and egalitarian tendencies of Shevchenko. 

His political views were [[File:Radlib.png]] [[Radicalism|radical]] and [[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism|pro-Republican]]. Shevchenko praised the [[File:Cball-Ukraine.png]] [[National Liberalism|Ukrainian nation]] and its will to independence. Despite his left-leaning positions, Shevchenko was [[File:Progconf.png]] [[Progressive Conservatism|culturally ambiguous]]. He said: 
{{Quote|quote="Learn from others, but don't shun your own"|speaker=[[File:Shevchenko.png]] Taras Shevchenko}}

Taras Shevchenko was ransomed from serfdom by Russian painter [[File:Merit.png]] [[Meritocracy|Karl Bryullov]]. Thereafter Shevchenko was sent into an exile and dead in Saint Petersburg.

Shevchenkoism is a [[File:Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Left Unity|left-wing]] and culturally [[File:Cultcenter.png]] [[:Category:Cultural Center|culturally center]] to [[File:Rfrm.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|center-left]] ideology.