What is the difference between nationalism and communism

Shared literature, sports, and music may strengthen nationalism. Communism is a doctrine economy and politics that aims to replace a profit-based economy and private property. With communal control and ownership of at least the means of production and the natural resources of society. According to advocates, communism is a higher and more advanced form of socialism. Most of the writers use the terms socialism and communism interchangeably in the 19th century and same as the Carl Marx did.

But in his critique of the Gotha Program , he identified two phases of communism in which he predicted the overthrow of capitalism.

Lenin in State and Revolution asserted that the first phase of communist society and proper communism to the second by Marx corresponds to socialism. After this communism has been largely identified with the form of economic and political organization. Firstly, this organization was developed in the Soviet Union. It holds a belief that a nation should be free from outside interference and should govern itself.

Nationalism also aims to maintain and build a single identity. The identity should be based on shared characteristics of society such as ethnicity , politics, culture, language, geographic location, traditions, and religion. It is also based on the promotion of national solidarity or unity as well as a belief in a shared history.

The association of culture revivals is with nationalist movements. Depending on individual outlook and context it can be seen as positive as well as negative. The Irish revolution, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Greek revolution, and the Zionist are some of the national movements in which nationalism played a vital role. But it also played an important role in the controversy of the annexation of Crimea by Russia.

It can be concluded that communism and nationalism are two of the different theories. They both are mainly highlighted in the subject of social studies of secondary school. MLA 8 S, Prabhat. True nationalism does not hold that one nation is superior to others. It is separatist, not supremacist. If one nation were to hold its superiority over another, and then conquer it based on that belief, it would actually be practicing internationalist politics. If the nation is truly and completely nationalist, then there will be no-one who is held as inferior within the country.

Conquering other nations is not acceptable under nationalist philosophy. To be clear, fighting against internationalist conquering forces, in other nationalist countries, is acceptable. Nationalists have a vested interest in not allowing internationalists to gain control of other nationalist nations. It is incumbent upon any communist country to show the rest of the world why communism is superior to other kinds of government.

Why should any community, state, nation, country embrace communism if it cannot be shown to be a superior governing and communal arrangement among humans? And the question must be asked as to why the majority of people immigrating today are coming to America. So the citizens of say, Russia are concerned with spreading communism around the world? This is ludicrous. They have all to do to maintain life in the economically strangled communities that they live in, let alone think about spreading a claustrophobic ideology anywhere else.

Maybe the elites in these communist countries think about spreading communism, but this would clearly be a defensive reaction against the possibility of another political entity overtaking them. Communist regimes have historically moved to overtake other countries in an effort to expand and absorb the resources of weaker nations, i.

All communists in history have been nationalists, because that is the core of a communist state, whether the state is a country or whole planet. I truly believe that there is a difference between Nationalism and Communism.. You see Communism to gain control uses nationalist and patriotic slogans to convince the masses..

Please notice what I just said…. I would prefer Nationalism….. Name required. Email required. Please note: comment moderation is enabled and may delay your comment. There is no need to resubmit your comment. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.

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