Left-Wing Nationalism

"Not to be confused with National Socialism or  Social Nationalism"

Left-Wing Nationalism (LeftNat) is an economically left-wing, culturally neutral and nationalist ideology that advocates worker-owned means of production, in combination with Anti-Imperialism,  Egalitarianism, International Solidarity, National Self-Determination and Popular Sovereignty. LeftNat often rejects ethnic/racial nationalism, instead opting for civic/cultural nationalism and patriotism, although there are some ethnic/racial left-wing nationalists.

History
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[[File:Cball-Armenia.png]] 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 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.

[[File:Cball-Catalonia.png]] 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 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 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-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.

[[File:Cball-UK.png]] Scotland, UK [[File:Cball-Scotland.png]]
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.

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
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 * 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!

Friends

 * [[File:Nation.png]] Nationalism - My father who taught me Nationalism and how to maintain national sovereignty from foreign invaders. He has some mild reactionary views that have inspired some of my worst enemies, but he was a product of his time and he also inspired people like me to rebel against such invaders so I can't hate him for that.
 * [[File:Modnat.png]] Patriotism - Similar to above but milder, and is a lot less hostile to outside comrades which is nice.
 * [[File:Natcom.png]] National Communism - My more radical communist brother. He is pretty based. Although I worry that Nazbol might be a bad influence for him.
 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism - My mother who taught me Socialism and how the workers must be freed from the chains of capitalism.
 * [[File:Consocf.png]] Conservative Socialism - We agree on most issues, he's just more conservative than me.
 * [[File:Demsocstar.png]] Democratic Socialism - Democracy works well with socialism, but I wish you were more nationalist.
 * [[File:Statesoc.png]] State Socialism - We can use the state to maintain and strengthen socialist policies that will benefit everyone.
 * [[File:Protect.png]] Protectionism - Tariffs will protect our nation from foreign interests.
 * [[File:Sep.png]] Separatism - Liberty and Self-Determination for the working people and against invaders? Based and National Liberation-pilled.
 * [[File:Native.png]] Indigenism - Another based left-nationalist that is fighting the colonialists and imperialists who stole his peoples lands!
 * [[File:Globnat.png]] Alter-Globalization - The ONLY good globalist. Just because I am a nationalist, doesn't mean I am not in favor of international solidarity and freedom for the colonized and the working-class!
 * [[File:Afrsoc.png]] African Socialism - Fellow Africans who follow my teachings to free their homelands from colonialist oppression.
 * [[File:Absoc.png]] Arab Socialism - Unifying Arabs through socialist nationalism and resisting imperialism? What can say except based.
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] Ho Chi Minh Thought - Great job kicking the Colonial French and Imperialist Americans out of Indochina.
 * [[File:Kemal.png]] Kemalism - Based Anti-Imperialist who valued the national sovereignty of turkey.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black Nationalism - I have very mixed feelings about you. The Black Panthers were basically me but applied to the African-American population against the white colonial state (which is unimaginably based), but some of your factions have historically have bordered on supremacism and racism against white people in general, which isn't a good way to fight for your liberty, or against the oppressive racial state.
 * [[File:Natcon.png]] National Conservatism - Depends a lot on a case by case basis, but in theory you are a based nationalist, albeit way too conservative and capitalistic. But in practice, many right-wing forms of nationalism are directly opposed to my ideals of left-wing nationalism which usually seeks to succeed from your ideas of nationalism overtaking the will of those you oppress without regards for their identity.
 * [[File:Nalib.png]] National Liberalism - We disagree on most stuff like economics, but I enjoyed celebrating Brexit with you as fellow nationalist, albeit for COMPLETELY different reasons.
 * [[File:Natlib.png]] National Libertarianism - All I can say is that our views on class and nation are very different from each other, and quite honestly I think his ideas are a lot more backward than a lot of those he fights against.
 * [[File:Nazbol.png]] National Bolshevism - Ethnonationalism, racism, as well as taking inspiration from Nazism and totalitarianism for the sake of it is pretty cringe, but at least your economic policies are awesome, 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 soon?
 * [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Marxism - I highly respect Marx, he clearly has the right economic policies and he is very wise in his analysis of class. I support, if not outright praise international solidarity and camaraderie between fellow workers, but Marx does not understand nationalism's utility for the working class. Attacking working men for their love for their affiliation, band, creed, identity, or nation is misleading and may even devalue the socialist movement.
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Same as above, but at least you care more about the nation. We have worked in the past to achieve great things for the socialist cause. But why like Marx do you hate nationalism? The working man is by nature still a man, and man is more than often defined by the community they identify themselves with, alongside their shared customs and traditions with other like minded individuals, thus removing that only takes away from the power of the working man.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - You're very centrist but pretty close to establishing socialism.
 * [[File:Patcon.png]] Paternalistic Conservatism - Basically just a combination of [[File:Conservative.png]] Conservatism and [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy. A bearable alternative to regular right-wing nationalism and conservatism.
 * WelfChauvin.png Welfare Chauvinism - Cool economics, albeit too moderate and far too extreme culturally.
 * [[File:Neighborstan.png]] Neighborstan - Other nations are my brothers, only dictators are my enemies. I am not asking for the lands of others. I am not trespassing on anyone else's territory, but for the rights of my people and my land, as long as I am alive, I will fight!

Enemies

 * [[File:World.png]] Globalism - Globalism will only benefit the bourgeoisie and harm the nation's proletariat.
 * [[File:World_Federalism2.png]] World Federalism - You're just a facade for imperialists to exploit developing nations. Anything you say is just a lie to mask your neo-colonial tendencies under the guise of genuine humanism and "solidarity". Lets just say there is a reason why a lot of your leaders were just white, western neoliberals from the first world.
 * [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism - Death to Imperialism! (Except Québec, but we don't talk about what happened)
 * [[File:Neoimp.png]] Neo-Imperialism - YOU'RE THE FUCKING BASTARDS THAT RUINED THE THIRD WORLD!!!
 * [[File:Franco.png]] Francoism - YOU OPPRESSED THE [[File:Cball-Basque.png]] BASQUES AND [[File:Cball-Catalonia.png]] CATALANS! I'm glad I made Blanco Spain's first astronaut!
 * [[File:SrX.png]] "Señor X" - YOU MASSACRED THE BASQUE PEOPLE!
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - You're not even a socialist, you're just an anti-semitic asshole. I hate it when people confuse you with me just because I'm socialist and nationalist.
 * [[File:Strasser.png]] Strasserism - The only thing I genuinely liked about you was when you said "We must take from the right's nationalism without capitalism and from the left's socialism without internationalism" but while I agree with that quote it is for VERY different reasons, even worse, you basically took in everything else about my values and corrupted it into a totalitarian pseudo-socialist racial state.
 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism - Just like National Socialism you ruined the name nationalism and conflate it with your far-right ultranationalism.
 * [[File:Soclib.png]] Social Liberalism - You're not even leftist, stop pretending to be one.
 * [[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)
 * [[File:Polpot.png]] Pol Potism - You have the right idea but you went about it really, really wrong.

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
 * Socialist Patriotism
 * Social Patriotism
 * Irish Republicanism

Peoples

 * [[File:Cball-GermanEmpire.png]] Phillip Mainländer [[File:Mainländer.png]]
 * [[file:Cball-IIRP.png]] Józef Piłsudski [[file:Pilsudski.png]]

Parties

 * [[File:Cball-Ireland.png]] Sinn Féin [[File:UKSinn.png]]
 * [[File:CBall-Wales.png]] Plaid Cymru (Wales) [[File:UKPlaid.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-France.png]] La France Insoumise [[File:LaFranceInsoumise.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Catalonia.png]] Republican Left of Catalonia
 * [[File:Cball-Catalonia.png]] Popular Unity Candidacy
 * [[File:Cball-Basque.png]] Basque Homeland and Liberty [[File:ETA.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Mexico.png]] MORENA [[File:MORENA.png]]
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Communist Party of Cuba [[File:Castro-PCC.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Nicaragua.png]] Sandinista National Liberation Front [[File:Sandinism.png]]
 * [[File:Chavismo.png]] United Socialist Party of Venezuela [[File:Chavismo-PSUV.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Bolivia.png]] Movement for Socialism [[File:Evo.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Chile.png]] Socialist Party of Chile [[File:PSChile.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Philippines.png]] Bayan Muna
 * [[File:Ilminism.png]] Progressive Party
 * [[File:Cball-Armenia.png]] Dashnaks

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/LeftWingNationalism
 * r/LeftistNationalism (inactive)

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