Left-Wing Nationalism

Not to be confused with National Socialism or Social Nationalism (Though not this necessarily)

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

History

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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^[1] 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.

Catalonia

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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.

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.

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.

Scotland, UK

The Scottish independence movement is mainly left-wing and is spearheaded by the 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 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

Draw a ball,
Colour it red
In the centre, draw a golden flag coming from the bottom,
Add the eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#ED1D26	237, 29, 38
	Gold	#FFCC00	255, 204, 0

Relationships

Friends

Nationalism - You have some mild 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 - Same as above but moderate. Also way less hostile to outside comrades which is nice.
National Communism - My more radical communist brother. He is pretty based, although I worry that Nazbol might be a bad influence for him.
Socialism - The best economic system that improves the well-being of the proletariat, proving how superior socialism is compared to capitalism.
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.
State Socialism - The worker's state will benefit from a strong sense of national identity.
Protectionism - Tariffs will protect our nation from foreign interests.
Separatism - Self-Determination for oppressed minorities? Based!
Indigenism - You are doing the best you can fighting the colonialists and imperialists that stole your lands!
Alter-Globalization - The ONLY good globalist. Just because I am a nationalist does not mean I support international solidarity and freedom for the exploited colonized and working-class!
African Socialism - Fellow Africans who advocate nationalist socialism to liberate their homelands from colonialist oppression.
Arab Socialism - Unifying Arabs through socialist nationalism is extremely based.
Ho Chi Minh Thought - Great job kicking the French Colonialists and American Imperialists out of Indochina.
Socialism of the 21st Century - My Latin American comrade who resists American Neoliberalism.
Titoism - "Brotherhood and Unity" is such a good and inspiring slogan.
Civic Nationalism - Fellow nationalist who understands that the nation is not defined by limited boundaries such as race or ethnicity. I wish you were more socialist though.
Hibernocracy- COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS, COME OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!

Frenemies

Black Nationalism - I have very mixed feelings about you. We have worked together to fight the white colonial states in 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 racial state.
National Conservatism - In theory, you are a based nationalist that is too conservative and capitalistic. In reality, the majority of right-wing nationalists are directly opposed to left-wing nationalism as their beliefs and values are conflicting to ours.
National Liberalism - We disagree on most stuff like economics and liberalism, but at least we both enjoyed Brexit.
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.
National Bolshevism - Ethnonationalism and Fascism are pretty cringe, 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 soon?~~
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 - Same as above, but at least you care more about the nation. But like Marx, why do you hate nationalism? The working class is often defined by the community they identify themselves with, thus removing that will only take away power from the working class.
Stalinism - Socialism in One Country is tremendously based but your policy of suppressing cultural identities and nationalism is pure cringe. You've also committed social imperialism by patriating Poland, invading Finland and Iran, and puppeting the entire Eastern Europe.
Social Democracy - You're pretty close to establishing socialism, but your exploitation of the third world and how many of your first world adherents embrace globalist imperialism make me puke.
Paternalistic Conservatism - Basically just a combination of Conservatism and Social Democracy. A bearable alternative to regular right-wing nationalism and conservatism.
Welfare Chauvinism - Cool economics, but calm down with the chauvinism.
Neighborstan - 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!
Market Socialism - Vietnam and Yugoslavia were epic but I don't like how most of you are globalist succdems.

Enemies

Globalism & World Federalism - You will only benefit the bourgeoisie imperialists and harm the oppressed proletariat. There is a reason both of your leaders are mostly white Liberals and Neoliberals from the first-world, Both of you are just facades for imperialists to exploit poorer nations. Anything you say are just illusions 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! ~~(Except Québec, but we don't talk about what happened)~~
Neo-Imperialism - YOU HAVE ONLY CAUSED PAIN AND SUFFERING TO THE THIRD WORLD!
Francoism - YOU OPPRESSED THE BASQUES AND CATALANS! I'm glad I made Blanco Spain's first astronaut!
"Señor X" - YOU MASSACRED THE BASQUE PEOPLE!
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.
Strasserism - "We must take from the right's nationalism without capitalism and from the left's socialism without internationalism" is a quote i agree with, albeit for VERY different reasons. You basically took everything about my values and corrupted it into a pseudo-socialist racial state.
Fascism - Just like National Socialism you ruined the name nationalism and conflate it with your far-right ultranationalism.
Social Liberalism - You're not even leftist, stop pretending to be one.
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)
Pol Potism - You had the right idea but you went about it really, really wrong.

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

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