Bourgeois nationalism

In Marxism, bourgeois nationalism is the alleged practice by the ruling classes of deliberately dividing people by nationality, race, ethnicity, or religion, so as to distract them from initiating 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!).

History

Soviet Union

China

Bourgeois nationalism as a concept was discussed in China by Liu Shaoqi as follows:

The exploitation of wage labour, competition, the squeezing out, suppressing and swallowing of rivals among the capitalists themselves, the resorting to war and even world war, the utilisation of all means to secure a monopoly position in its own country and throughout the world - such is the inherent character of the profit-seeking bourgeoisie. This is the class basis of bourgeois nationalism and of all bourgeois ideologies. [...]
The most vicious manifestations of the development of bourgeois nationalism include the enslavement of the colonial and semi-colonial countries by the imperialist powers, the First World War, the aggression of Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese warlords during the Second World War, and the schemes for the enslavement of the whole world undertaken by the international imperialist camp, headed by American imperialism.^[3]

Notes

↑ Khiterer, V. (2004) 'Nationalism in the Soviet Union', in Encyclopedia of Russian History, Macmillan Reference USA
↑ L. I. Brezhnev, The 50th Anniversary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow, 1972, p. 10.
↑ Shaoqi, Liu. "Internationalism and Nationalism". Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

References

Internationalism and Nationalism by Liu Shaoqi
Marxism and Nationalism by Tom Lewis

Marxist phraseology and terminology

Philosophy and politics (Marxist)	Base and superstructure Bourgeoisie Bourgeois democracy Bourgeois nationalism Bourgeois socialism Capitalist mode of production Class struggle Commodification Socialist mode of production Pure communism Dictatorship of the proletariat Imperialism Liquidationism Lumpenproletariat Means of labor Metabolic rift Petite bourgeoisie Primitive accumulation of capital Proletarian internationalism Proletarian revolution Revolutionary spontaneity Revolutionary wave Scientific socialism Super-imperialism Historical materialism Theoretician Two Stage Theory Wage slavery Workers Council Workers Control World revolution Dialectics

Economics and sociology (Marxian)	Capital Accumulation of capital Capitalist mode of production Crisis of capitalism Commodity Commodity production Dominant ideology Free association Materialism Means of production Mode of production Productive forces Relations of production Worker Cooperative Law of value Surplus value Use-value Exchange value Value Socially necessary labour time Socialization Production for use Socialist mode of production Ruling class Simple commodity production Commanding heights of the economy

Marxist-Leninist	Cadre Central Committee Democratic centralism Dual power Enemy of the people Foco General line of the party National liberation New class Politburo Political rehabilitation Popular front Revolutionary terror United front Vanguardism Social fascism Socialist accumulation Real socialism Revisionism Soviet democracy Socialism in one country Social imperialism People's democracy

Trotskyist	Deformed workers' state Degenerated workers' state Social revolution New class Permanent revolution Bureaucratic collectivism

Maoist	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Antagonistic contradiction Capitalist roader Four Olds Mass line New Democracy People's war Revolutionary base area Struggle session Third Worldism

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