Left-wing nationalism

The links nationalism describes a form of inclusive nationalism that is based on equality, popular sovereignty and national self-determination.

It has its roots in the Jacobinism of the French Revolution of 1789. Nationalism The links also typically includes the anti-imperialism and is in contrast to the exclusive right nationalism, although in the past marginal excesses of nationalism Links partly also included intolerance and racial prejudice.

Known left nationalist movements in history are the Indian National Congress (INC ), which sought independence of India under Mahatma Gandhi, the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) under Deniz Baykal to 2010, Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence and during the Northern Ireland conflict, and African National Congress ( ANC) in South Africa under Nelson Mandela, who fought against the then apartheid.

However, the links nationalism appeared in more authoritarian forms: The Arabic Socialist Baath Party in Syria and Iraq earlier supported the pan-Arabism and state socialism. The head of state as a leader Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia supported a left-nationalist Pan - Südslawismus.