Left-Wing Nationalism

Not to be confused with File:Socnat.png Social Nationalism

"If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic, your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs"

File:Connolly.png James Connolly

Left-Wing Nationalism (LeftNat), Social Patriotism or Socialist Nationalism is an economically left-wing, culturally neutral and nationalist ideology that advocates for collective ownership of the means of production, in combination with anti-imperialism, File:Equality.png egalitarianism, File:Internation.png international solidarity, national self-determination and national sovereignty.

Variants

Anti-Colonial Nationalism

Anti-Colonial Nationalism is a form of left-wing nationalism that focuses on decolonization and anti-imperialism. Because of colonialism’s creation of state and country lines across ethnic, religious, linguistic and other historical boundaries, anti-colonial nationalism is largely related to land first. After independence, especially in countries with particularly diverse populations with historic enmity, there have been a series of smaller independence movements that are also defined by anti-colonialism.

File:SocialistPatriot.png Social Patriotism

Social Patriotism is a version of patriotism that combines elements of patriotism with a focus on social welfare and solidarity among citizens. It emphasizes the idea that a strong and cohesive society is essential for the well-being and success of a nation. It was first identified at the first outset of World War I when a majority of social democrats opted to support the war efforts of their respective governments and abandoned socialist internationalism and worker solidarity. Social patriots believe in promoting the interests of their citizens and nation first, contrary to modern mainstream social democrats that tend to support international cooperation and integration.

File:Socialist Patriotism.png Socialist Patriotism

Socialist Patriotism is a form of patriotism advocated by Marxist-Leninist movements. Socialist patriotism promotes people living within Marxist-Leninist countries to adopt a "boundless love for the socialist homeland, a commitment to the revolutionary transformation of society and the cause of communism". Marxists and Marxist-Leninists claim that socialist patriotism is not connected with nationalism, and denounce nationalism as a bourgeois ideology developed under capitalism that pits the working classes of the world against each other. Socialist patriotism is commonly advocated directly alongside proletarian internationalism, with communist parties regarding the two concepts as compatible with each other.

History

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Algeria

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Armenia File:Dashnak.png

Left-Wing Nationalists have played a crucial role in Armenian history. The first main Armenian Left-Wing Nationalist group was the File:Dashnak.png 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 groups in which they would clash with Kurdish tribes over land. After the File:Ittihad.png 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 File:PKK-icon-pcb.png Kurdistan Workers' Party and the File:Habash.png Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. After an attack on [removed] 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.

Catalonia

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File:ETA.png Euskadi Ta Askatasuna

The Basque 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 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 the 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 considered an important factor in the Spanish transition to democracy, since 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 left 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.

File:Cball-India.png India

The Ghadar Movement established on July 15, 1913 by expatriate Indians in Astoria, Oregon, was a part of the larger Indian independence movement against British rule. During World War I, some Ghadar party members returned to Punjab to instigate armed revolution for Indian Independence. They smuggled arms into India and initiated the Ghadar Mutiny which resulted in the execution of 42 mutineers, following the Lahore Conspiracy Case trial. Ghadarites persisted covert anti-colonial efforts with the support of Germany and Ottoman Turkey, known as the Hindu–German Conspiracy. After the war ended, the party in the United States fractured into a Communist and an Indian Socialist faction. The party formally dissolved in 1948. Although its attempts at overthrowing the British Raj were unsuccessful, the insurrectionary ideals of the Ghadar Party influenced the individuals of the Indian Independence Movement which were at opposition to Gandhian nonviolence.

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was a seminal figure in the Indian independence movement, whose life and writings reflected a deep commitment to anti-colonial struggle and radical political change. Born in 1907 in Punjab under British colonial rule, Singh was profoundly influenced by the violent repression of Indian protests, the execution of freedom fighters, and global revolutionary thought. From an early age, he embraced anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, rejecting British rule and advocating for the complete sovereignty of India. His engagement with nationalist movements led him to adopt a more radical and systematic approach to resistance, culminating in acts of direct action and revolutionary propaganda aimed at mobilizing the masses.

Singh’s ideology combined elements of socialism and anarchism with Indian nationalist aspirations. He drew inspiration from File:AnMarx.pngMarxism, Bakunin, Lenin, and File:Trot.pngTrotsky, which informed both his strategic methods and his vision of a post-colonial society. While deeply File:Socialist Patriotism.pngpatriotic in his commitment to India’s independence, he rejected traditional hierarchies and feudal structures, advocating anti-feudalism as a means of empowering peasants and workers. His belief in republicanism emphasized democratic self-rule, civic equality, and the dismantling of oppressive institutions.

Bhagat Singh also positioned himself firmly against religious orthodoxy, promoting secularism in the context of India’s multi-religious society. He sought to unite Indians across caste, class, and faith lines under a common revolutionary cause. His writings, including essays such as Why I Am an Atheist, articulated a rationalist and secular vision, challenging both colonial authority and the social hierarchies that hindered collective liberation. Singh’s revolutionary philosophy was deeply progressive, advocating both immediate political change and long-term social transformation, reflecting a fusion of Indian nationalist aspirations with global socialist and anarchist ideas.

In the leaflet he threw in the Central Assembly on 8 April 1929, he stated:

"It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived."

Through his activism, including high-profile actions against colonial authorities and his subsequent execution in 1931, Singh became a symbol of uncompromising resistance. His vision integrated revolutionary progressivism with disciplined political strategy, combining armed struggle, mass mobilization, and ideological clarity. The coherence of his thought lies in its simultaneous embrace of anti-imperialism, socialist principles, and a rational, secular vision for an egalitarian and sovereign India.

File:Cball-Iraq.png Iraq

• Qasimism - Abd al-Karim Qasim was an Iraqi military man and prime minister after the overthrow of the monarchy and King Faisal II during the 14th of July revolution. He had a strong role in the February 14 revolution, in which he led military brigades that took the capital, killing the king, then killing and maiming the crown prince and prime minister, having a parade in the streets with both bodies, surviving only Princess Hiyam. After that, he took power in 1958 with Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i as president.

As prime minister, he instituted nationalism, instituted some liberal laws, such as women's rights, marriage and divorce, inheritance (interestingly) among others. He also instituted agrarian reform, ending the feudal structure and bringing about a distribution of land, also increasing spending on education. There was construction of houses for the poorest population, an attempt to balance the communist left and the nationalist right, with secularism and civic nationalism. Even with some improvements, he still used the military to violently suppress rebellions and sentenced those who participated in the Mosul rebellion in 1959 to death, in addition to some more fervent opponents accusing him of corruption. Iraq's relations with Iran and the West deteriorated, it refused to enter Nasser's United Arab Republic and strengthened ties with the Soviet Union. After not granting autonomy to the Kurds, generating the first Kurdish-Iraqi war, in which the Iraqi offensive against it ended up failing, having to make negotiations for Kurdish autonomy. Even though he had good relations with the Communists, he ended up purging them in 1960 after the Kirkuk massacre. He was overthrown after a Baath Party military coup in 1963, then being executed and his body exposed on television.

File:Cball-Ireland.png Ireland

Irish nationalism has been left-wing 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.

Mexico

Cardenismo

Lázaro Cárdenas (1895–1970) served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940 and became the central figure behind the political tradition known as Cardenismo. His career unfolded during the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, a period when the country was still attempting to stabilize its political system and address the social demands that had fueled the revolution. Cárdenas began his political life as a loyal supporter of the revolutionary establishment created by leaders such as Plutarco Elías Calles. During this early period, he rose through military and political ranks, serving as governor of the state of Michoacán and aligning himself with the dominant revolutionary political structure that Calles had constructed.

When Cárdenas assumed the presidency in 1934 under the banner of the ruling National Revolutionary Party, many observers expected him to remain subordinate to Calles, who continued to wield influence during the period often called the Maximato. Instead, Cárdenas gradually consolidated power and removed Calles from the political center, eventually forcing him into exile in 1936. This shift marked a decisive break with the previous leadership and reoriented the revolutionary government toward a more File:LeftSocauth.pngsocially transformative agenda. The consolidation of executive power under Cárdenas strengthened the political dominance of the File:SemiAuthPar.pngrevolutionary party system that would later evolve into the Institutional Revolutionary Party, establishing a durable framework in which one party remained the central vehicle of governance for decades.

Once firmly in control, Cárdenas initiated sweeping reforms aimed at fulfilling the social promises of the revolution. One of the most consequential policies was a massive redistribution of land to rural communities. Millions of hectares were distributed to peasant collectives known as ejidos, reshaping rural property relations and empowering agricultural communities across Mexico. These reforms were accompanied by government efforts to File:SyndieSam.pngorganize workers through officially recognized labor unions, strengthening the role of organized labor in national politics. Cárdenas also promoted programs aimed at expanding education and social welfare, while emphasizing the cultural and political recognition of Mexico’s Indigenous populations through policies that supported Indigenous languages, traditions, and rural development initiatives.

Cárdenas’s economic policies also placed a strong emphasis on File:EconNat.pngnational control of strategic resources. In 1938, his government carried out the historic expropriation of foreign-owned oil companies, leading to the creation of the state oil enterprise Petróleos Mexicanos. The move became one of the defining moments of his presidency, symbolizing File:EconPop.pngnational sovereignty over economic resources and generating widespread popular support. At the same time, Cárdenas attempted to maintain a degree of independence in international affairs, avoiding alignment with major power blocs while expressing sympathy for anti-fascist causes abroad. During the Spanish Civil War, Mexico under Cárdenas supported the exiled members of the Second Spanish Republic and provided asylum to thousands of refugees fleeing the victory of Francisco Franco.

Another major international gesture came in 1937, when Cárdenas granted political asylum to the exiled Russian revolutionary File:Trot.pngLeon Trotsky, who lived in Mexico until his assassination in 1940. This decision highlighted the government’s willingness to challenge dominant political currents within the global socialist movement and demonstrated Mexico’s role as a refuge for political exiles. Throughout the late 1930s, Cárdenas also worked to reduce the influence of the military in civilian governance, placing increasing emphasis on mass organizations.

After leaving the presidency in 1940, Cárdenas remained an influential figure in Mexican public life, though he avoided dominating his successors. In later decades he expressed sympathy for various anti-colonial and socialist movements around the world. He spoke favorably of leaders such as Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh, and he also showed admiration for the philosophical and humanitarian views of thinkers like Bertrand Russell. Despite these sympathies, Cárdenas consistently emphasized that Mexico’s political path should remain distinct, rooted in the social ideals of the Mexican Revolution rather than imported ideological models.

The legacy of Cárdenas rests on his attempt to combine strong executive leadership with social transformation driven by organized workers and peasants. Through land redistribution, labor mobilization, resource nationalization, and cultural inclusion, his presidency reshaped Mexico’s political landscape and left a lasting imprint on the country’s institutions and national identity.

File:Cball-Palestine.png Palestine File:Fatah.png

• File:Fatah.png Fatah - Fatah is a Palestinian party that emerged in 1965 (actually it emerged in 1959, but as a movement, not a party), which preaches a Social Democratic economy, Secularism and File:Mil.png Militarism.

File:JuanVelasco.png Peruanismo

Peruanismo (Peruvianism), also known as Velasquismo (Velascoism), is a left-wing ideology originally from File:Cball-Peru.png Peru, based on the thought of former Peruvian president Juan Velasco Alvarado (1910-1977), during the first phase (1968-1975) of the military dictatorship called "Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces" (1968-1980). This ideology arises with the October 3rd 1968 coup d'etat in Peru, ruling until August 29 1975, when another coup was done making Francisco Morales Bermúdez the de facto Peruvian president.

It believes in a political-economic system which would not be capitalist neither communist, while often accused of de facto being pro-Soviet and socialist-leaning; it's File:Developmentalism.png developmentalist and highly nationalist, with a strong state control over property and the creation of self-managed File:Marketsoc.png socialist cooperatives. Culturally, it promotes File:Cball-Peru.png Peruvian culture even sometimes rejecting western culture. It's authoritarian and File:Strato-Antifurry.png militaristic, rejecting both armed revolutions and multi-party elections; while it rejected political parties as a ruling method, de facto it established a one-party state with File:DemML.png SINAMOS (Sistema Nacional de Apoyo a la Movilización Social, "National System of Support for Social Mobilisation" in English) being de facto ruling party (while it was government agency rather than a proper political party). In foreign policy, it was neutral in the Cold War (while again de facto being somewhat pro-Soviet in foreign policy), and it supported other anti-imperialist movements in Latin America (like Allende's Chile, File:OmarTorrijos.png Torrijos' Panama, etc)

Scotland File:Cball-Scotland.png

The Scottish independence movement is mainly left-wing and is spearheaded by the File:UKSNP.png Scottish National Party, a party that has been centre-left since the 1970s. There are other political parties from the political left in favour of Scottish independence, namely the Scottish Greens, the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity. As well as the Alba Party which can be described as centre right on social issues but centre left on economic issues led by former first minister Alex Salmond over accusations from SNP over sexual abuse as well as the party's stance on transgenderism.

File:UKSNP.png Scottish National Party

The File:UKSNP.png Scottish National Party was created in 1934 as a merger between the Scottish and National Parties and by the Second World War was swiftly embroiled in controversy after prominent members supported collaborating with Nazi Germany in order to secure Scottish independence from England. However these members were removed from the party or changed their views by the end of the war, but it wasn't until the 1960s that SNP adopted Scottish independence as their official platform before then the party was badly split over devolution vs File:Sep.png independence. It also would not be until the 1980s that SNP adopted social democratic economics under the leadership of William "Billy" Wolfe. The party still has a very large socially conservative and even fiscally conservative wing as seen by the unsuccessful but powerful campaigns of File:Fiscon.png Kate Forbes and File:Radfem.png Ash Regan in 2023 after the resignation of File:Libfem.png Nicola Sturgeon however the socially and economically progressive wing of SNP is more powerful than the conservative wings with the election of File:EconProg.png Humza Yousaf over both women.

File:ScotsGreens.png Scottish Greens

The Scottish Greens became their own party, though closely linked, from the Green Party of the United Kingdom in 1990 when the Green party split itself into 3 different party for Northern Ireland, England and Wales, and Scotland. The Scottish Greens are the second largest nationalist party in Scotland after the SNP they have been in coalition with the SNP since 2021. They have a near identical policy to the progressive wing of SNP on economic and social matters but differ due to their focus on environmental affairs such as the Marine Protection Act which drew controversy among island communities due to its stringent regulations against small fishermen. As well as opposition to an independent Scotland joining NATO and opposing the SNP's plans of expanding two major motorways in Scotland.

Alba Party

The Alba Party was formed after Alex Salmond resigned from SNP over allegations of sexual assault and the subsequent court case acquitting him of any crime. Salmond would then accuse Sturgeon's inner circle of plotting against him and criticised their approach to Scottish independence due to their support over transgender rights and focusing on more economic issues rather than independence, in his words, Salmond wishes to place full importance on Scottish independence and let economics and social policies take a backseat as well as believing that gender identification laws will harm women's rights and thus must not be implemented.

Scottish Socialist Party

The Scottish Socialist Party is the smallest left wing Scottish nationalist party, it was formed after a decision to transform the socialist pressure group "Scottish Socialist Alliance" into a political party to attempt to rival Labour and SNP. They had their best to date, showing at the election of 2003 in Scotland when they won six seats however this was not repeated and all six seats were lost by the 2007 election. The Scottish Socialist Party has a broad manifesto detailing policies and pledges to further democratise Scotland and reverse any cuts to public spending and place utilities and public services entirely under government control while achieving independence from the United Kingdom.

Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement

Solidarity was founded as a splinter group from the Scottish Socialist party in 2006 by Tommy Sheridan (the founder of SSP) while a majority of members of SSP (especially in Shetland) voted to remain in the SSP a not insignificant minority defected to this new party which was endorsed by various Trotskyist groups. However due to poor electoral performance the party merged entirely with Alba in 2021.

File:SovietPatriot.png Soviet Patriotism/Soviet Nationalism

Soviet Patriotism emerged as a form of political loyalty and ideological expression within the Soviet Union, emphasizing the defense and glorification of the state while integrating elements of socialist ideology and national identity. Its roots trace to the post-1917 consolidation of the Bolshevik regime, when Marxism-Leninism became the guiding framework of governance. Advocates of Soviet patriotism framed loyalty to the Soviet state as inseparable from the promotion of Marxism-Leninism, viewing the USSR not only as a political entity but as the embodiment of the proletarian revolution and the global communist project. This alignment made the ideology both socialist in principle and patriotically oriented, blending internationalist commitments with a distinctly Soviet national narrative.

The historical development of Soviet patriotism was closely linked to the creation of a File:ModCivCultNat.pngnew historical community, uniting the diverse peoples of the USSR under the banners of socialist progress and state-directed modernization. Policies promoted File:ComMulticult.pngmulticulturalism in theory, granting nominal recognition to ethnic and national identities within the broader framework of Soviet identity. However, this multiculturalism was mediated through centralized control, creating tension between local traditions and overarching loyalty to the socialist state.

Soviet patriotism was historically intertwined with File:ProlIntern.pngproletarian internationalism, the belief that solidarity among the working class transcended national boundaries. In practice, this meant promoting Soviet achievements and socialist solidarity abroad while cultivating loyalty at home. The approach frequently encouraged File:Socialist Patriotism.pngsocialist patriotism, which fused pride in the nation’s accomplishments with a commitment to Marxist-Leninist ideals. The tension between internationalist ideology and patriotic sentiment was particularly evident during periods of military conflict or ideological confrontation, such as the Second World War, when Soviet leaders invoked both class solidarity and national defense to mobilize the populace.

The ideological currents of Soviet patriotism also fostered File:PostSoviet.pngSoviet nostalgia after the collapse of the USSR, as former citizens and sympathizers recalled the perceived social security, equality, and global prestige associated with the Soviet system. This nostalgic tendency reflects the enduring influence of Soviet patriotism as more than a political doctrine: it shaped identity, collective memory, and cultural frameworks that persisted long after the dissolution of the state. Throughout its evolution, Soviet patriotism served as a mechanism for integrating socialist ideology with a sense of historical continuity and communal belonging, balancing the ideals of internationalism with the realities of national pride.

File:Cball-Ukraine.png Ukraine File:SymonPetliura.pngFile:Sosiura.pngFile:Hrushevsky.pngFile:Shevchenko.png

File:Shevchenko.png Shevchenkoism

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

His political views were File:Radlib.png radical and pro-Republican. Shevchenko praised the File:Cball-Ukraine.png Ukrainian nation and its will to independence. Despite his left-leaning positions, Shevchenko was File:Progconf.png culturally ambiguous. He said:

"Learn from others, but don't shun your own"

File:Shevchenko.png Taras Shevchenko

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

Shevchenkoism is a File:Leftunity.png left-wing and culturally File:Cultcenter.png culturally center to File:Rfrm.png center-left ideology.

Beliefs

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Personality

LeftNat is a nationalist like his father and a socialist like his mother. LeftNat is happy to debate with his fellow Leftists about economics but he will later find himself in debates with them over the nation as LeftNat argues it is against the Left's own interests to support things like globalism which is pioneered by the bourgeoisie.

How to Draw

File:Lwnat flag.svg

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	rgb(237, 29, 38)
	Gold	#FFCC00	rgb(255, 204, 0)

Relationships

Fatherland defenders

• Nationalism - You have some mildly reactionary views that inspired some of my worst enemies, but you were a product of the time and also inspired people like me to rebel against such invaders so I can't hate you for that.
• Patriotism - The working class serves as one of, if not the most patriotic marching force.
• National Communism - My more radical communist brother. He is pretty based, although I worry that File:Nazbol.png he might be a bad influence for him.
• Socialism - The best economic system that improves the well-being of the proletariat.
• Conservative Socialism - We agree on most issues, you're just more conservative compared to me and I enjoy working with you as a fellow socialist.
• Democratic Socialism - Democracy and socialism must represent the will of the nation.
• File:Statesoc.png State Socialism - The worker's state will benefit from a strong sense of national identity.
• Protectionism - The economy must be independent and completely self-reliant.
• Alter-Globalism - Just because I am a nationalist does not mean I don't also support international solidarity and freedom for the exploited colonized and working-class!
• African Socialism - My African comrades who liberated their homelands from colonialist oppression.
• Indigenism - I understand your struggle, take back your land!
• Arab Socialism - From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
• Ho Chi Minh Thought - A hero of the socialist revolution who stood up to the French and American regimes and defended his country from annihilation.
• File:Soc21.png Socialism of the 21st Century - My Latin American comrade who resists American Neoliberalism.
• File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialism - Vietnam, Cuba, and Yugoslavia were/are epic.
• Civic Nationalism - The nation is not defined by limited boundaries such as race or ethnicity.
• Republicanism - Monarchy is a reactionary construct that only serves to oppress our nation's working class. Also, the Springtime of Nations was pretty based.

Frenemies

• File:Internation.png Internationalism - I am not against international cooperation and worker solidarity, I am against the exploitation of my nation's well-being for the benefit of foreign powers.
• File:Sep.png Separatism - All oppressed peoples have a right to self-determination. But you sometimes weaken the fight against imperialism.
• Black Nationalism - We have worked together towards decolonizing Africa, and a lot of your civil rights groups in the west like the Black Panther Party were basically just me applied to the African-American population. But racial nationalism and supremacy are not good ways to fight for your liberty or against the oppressive racist establishment.
• Labour Zionism - I support the liberation of ALL oppressed peoples, y'know, the Palestinians?
• Democratic Confederalism - A patriotic fighter who time and time again has proven his resilience to the hungry wolves around it, but you reject the traditional concept of the nation-state to replace it with a replica for what a democratic nation ought to be.
• National Conservatism - In theory, you are a acceptable nationalist that is too conservative and capitalistic. In reality, the majority of right-wing nationalists are directly opposed to me as their beliefs and values are conflicting to ours. Also, I have a File:LeftNatcon.png variant that is like you.
• National Liberalism - Liberty for who?
• Capitalism - The bourgeois individualist greed disregards our national values and does a disservice to the community in general, but I suppose you aren't bad when regulated. Just take our country's best interests to heart, okay?
• National Libertarianism - How do you expect to preserve your nation and its borders with a minimal state? At least you actually care about the nation, but your methods are seriously pathetic.
• File:Nazbol.png National Bolshevism - I will say this up front, Ethnonationalism and Fascism are utterly despicable, but at least you're a socialist, and your point about mainstream leftists not caring enough about how the nation can be used to liberate the working class is just awe-inspiring. Oh btw, is there any chance I can join the GANG anytime soon?
• File:Natsynd.png National Syndicalism - Same as above.
• Marxism - I highly respect Marx, he clearly had the right ideas. I praise international solidarity and proletarian camaraderie, but Marx does not understand nationalism's utility for the working class.
• Marxism-Leninism - The people of the Soviet Union show their love for the motherland, willing to die to protect her. With great strife and defense they triumphed over their enemies and moved onto the highest state of world politics. But you do not understand; the working class is often defined by the community they identify themselves with, thus removing that will only take away any motion from the working class.
• Social Democracy - You're on the way to establishing socialism, but your exploitation of the third world and how many of your first world adherents embrace globalism make me puke.
• Social Liberalism - I respect FDR for lifting the American working class out of recession and even cooperating with the USSR to defeat Fascism, unfortunately now you are no more than a neutered social democrat.
• Liberal Socialism - Why are you often against Nationalism?
• Welfare Chauvinism - While you want universe healthcare on a national level, I absolutely abhor chauvinism.
• File:Irridentism.png Irredentism - I am not asking for the lands of others. I am not trespassing on anyone else's territory, but if you trespass on my land, I will fight you until the day I die!
• File:Monsoc.png Monarcho-Socialism - The one tolerable monarchist that is also exceedingly rare. I still prefer republics though, and I find it natural that File:KPThought.png Souphanouvong did too.
• File:Mussolini.png Fascism - Gentile saw Fascism as a method for fulfilling the goals of the Risorgimento, and you initially opposed expansion in the Balkans, but later took a more militarist position and wanted to build your own fascist empire.

Foreign bourgeois

• Globalism & File:World Federalism2.png World Federalism - You will only benefit the bourgeoisie and harm the oppressed peoples worldwide. There is a reason both of your leaders are mostly white liberals from the first world, Both of you are just facades for imperialists to exploit poorer nations. Anything you say is just an illusion to mask your neo-colonial tendencies under the guise of genuine humanism and "solidarity". If you really did care about the people from the third world, then you should let them decide for themselves.
• Imperialism - Death to Imperialism!
• Neoconservatism - YOU HAVE ONLY CAUSED PAIN AND SUFFERING AROUND THE GLOBE!
• Neoliberalism - Go home gringo!
• File:Unimon.png Universal Monarchism - Aren't you just that clown again?
• Francoism - YOU OPPRESSED THE BASQUES AND CATALANS! I'm glad I made Blanco Spain's first astronaut!
• File:SrX.png "Señor X" - YOU MASSACRED THE BASQUE PEOPLE!
• Nazism - You're not even a socialist, you're just an anti-semitic, racial supremacist, darwinistic imperialist. Not to mention, I've used the term "national socialism" WAY before you came into existence.
• File:Thatcher.png Thatcherism - DING DONG THE WITCH IS IS DEAD, SHAME WE DID NOT KILL THAT BITCH! (Oh and btw I am gonna piss on your grave further by absolutely wrecking the UK in the Scottish independence referendum! S*it they voted nae.)
• Pol Potism - You had the right idea but you went about it really, really wrong.
• File:Gaullismicon2.png Gaullism & French Monarchism - LEAVE ALGERIA ALONE!!!
• Anglican Theocracy - UP THE IRA!
• File:Neighborstan.png Neighborstan - Our nation will stand in solidarity against oppression and capitalist exploitation like yours, you imperialist scum! I'll fund revolutions in your clay!!!
• File:Hindutva.png Hindutva - A fake nationalist and literal Neo-Fascist. You might have beaten me in File:Cball-Puducherry.png Puducherry I still beaten you in File:Cball-TamilNadu.png Tamil Nadu.

Further Information

Literature

• In Defence of Nationality by Rosa Luxemburg
• The Case for Left-Wing Nationalism (Preview) by Stephen Maxwell
• Nationalism and Socialism by Horace B. Davis
• The Right to Struggle: Selected Writings of Monte Melkonian on the Armenian National Question by Monte Melkonian

Wikipedia

• Left-Wing Nationalism
• File:Socialist Patriotism.png Socialist Patriotism
• File:SocialistPatriot.png Social Patriotism
• File:IrishRepublican.png Irish Republicanism
• File:Ulusal.png Ulusalism

Peoples

• File:Cball-GermanEmpire.png Philipp Mainländer File:Mainländer.png
• File:Cball-Peru.png Juan Velasco Alvarado File:JuanVelasco.png
• File:Cball-Ukraine.png Taras Shevchenko File:Shevchenko.png
• File:Cball-India.png Bhagat Singh
• Giuseppe Mazzini File:Mazzini.png
• File:Cball-Iraq.png Abdul-Karim Qasim
• File:Cball-Malta.png Dom Mintoff
• File:Cball-Mexico.png Lázaro Cárdenas
• File:Cball-Ireland.png James Connolly File:Connolly.png

Parties

• File:Cball-Ireland.png Sinn Féin File:UKSinn.png
• File:CBall-Wales.png Plaid Cymru (Wales) File:UKPlaid.png
• La France Insoumise File:LaFranceInsoumise.png
• Republican Left of Catalonia
• Popular Unity Candidacy
• Basque Homeland and Liberty File:ETA.png
• File:Cball-Mexico.png MORENA File:MORENA.png
• Communist Party of Cuba
• File:Cball-Nicaragua.png Sandinista National Liberation Front File:Sandinism.png
• File:Chavismo.png United Socialist Party of Venezuela File:Chavismo-PSUV.png
• Movement for Socialism File:Evo.png
• Socialist Party of Chile File:PSChile.png
• File:Cball-Philippines.png Bayan Muna
• File:Cball-South Korea.png Progressive Party
• Dashnaks File:Dashnak.png
• File:ROT.png Patriotic Party File:PatrioticParty.png
• File:Cball-India.png Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam File:DMK.png

Articles

• The left shouldn't fear nationalism. It should embrace it by Noam Gidrom
• Meet Europe's Left-Nationalists by David Adler
• In defense of left-wing nationalism by Malcolm Kyeyune

Videos

• A Left Wing Case for Nationalism by WanderingRusski

Online Communities

• r/LeftistNationalism (inactive)

Gallery

Portraits

• File:Gappate-leftwingnationalism.png
• File:LeftNat(SN).png

Alternative designs

• Socialist Nationalism (By File:Nuoh Okita.png DarknightYuusha )
  Socialist Nationalism (By File:Nuoh Okita.png DarknightYuusha )
• Irish Republicanism
  Irish Republicanism
• Socialist Patriotism flag design
  Socialist Patriotism flag design

Artwork and Comics

• Credit: u/KloggKimball, Source
  Credit: u/KloggKimball, Source
• "Xmas compass" by Spade
  "Xmas compass" by Spade

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