Revolutionary Ethos and Nationalism

One obvious pillar of the prevailing progressive ethos is a hatred and vilification of nationalism, to the degree that nationalism and bigotry/fascism are practically attacked as one and the same. So nationalism equates here by obvious inference to reactionary, ‘anti-revolutionary’ attitudes. 

However, in the nineteenth century the very popular revolutionary movements generally were specifically nationalist movements. Thus what Young Italy revolutionary movement under Mazzini directly led to the creation of the Italian nation state. It didn’t exist prior to the revolutionary movement. This was replicated right across Europe with for instance Young Ireland in my country again directly aspiring to an independent Irish nation state. Nationalist revolutionary movements such as in Poland and Greece embodied to the liberal imagination freedom from oppression, and unity through brotherhood - thus the Fraternity aspect of the famous French Revolutionary slogan: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Brotherhood).

This doesn’t mean there couldn’t be aspirations within revolutionary idealists beyond unity within the nationalist structure, but the huge popular draw of revolutionary movements shows how much resonance the sense of belonging as a people, French, Italian, Irish, etc rather than simply as an abstract humanity has for us.

Within the core of revolutionary movements however has often existed an elitist intellectual consciousness where these intellectuals conceive of humanity as an ignorant herd of whose development they are the guardians. This elite have already ascended to truth, and the greatest achievement of the rest of us is through obedience to be raised from our ignorance to their level. So when we end up with Lenin declaring his Bolshevik/Communist dictatorship to be ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’, what this really meant  was it was  a dictatorship by Lenin and the revolutionary elite who were acting as guardians of the proletariat.  

One very telling revealing of the elitism beneath the surface of things is the amazing current implication of populism as of being something negative! If a political or social movement is populist, of the populace, therefore it must be defiled! Rather than being led by an elite, the populace are thinking for themselves and believing power should emanate from within their own ranks! So very quickly of the masses don’t consent to be led by their betters, they are regarded with contempt and as the enemy.

This version of the revolutionary ideal under figures like Marx is not a nationalist but a globalist movement. It is a power fantasy that conceives of no limits or borders. The state run by the illuminated elite owns everything - “You will own nothing and be happy” as said by The World Economic Forum - and the state is not conceived as confined by the nationalist structures but instead extends to become an all-conquering one-world state. This is basic communist ideology. Thus, to see this in practical rather than theoretical terms, the hatred of borders and the rampant policies pushed by the political elites of mass-migration. So nationalism is now, rather than a revolutionary goal, is now a hindrance to be undermined, eroded and extinguished because it is an obstacle to the globalist ideal. 

Even the anti-white racism of modern progressivism is in considerable part aimed at undermining the sense of belonging and ‘fraternity’ anyone of European tradition or ethnicity has regarding their background. Though, to add, ths racist attack goes beyond the utilitarian function of serving a cause onto being a spiritual hatred of humanity itself - thus nihilism, the hatred of life itself.