tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post3122197004880139547..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: "No force in the world since 1848 has been more powerful, more deadly, more pervasive, or more persistent, than nationalistic zeal."Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-39517870061692067192023-01-12T13:42:59.130+13:002023-01-12T13:42:59.130+13:00The deadliest Marxist regimes were also avowedly n...The deadliest Marxist regimes were also avowedly nationalistic ones. The CCP is enthusiastically expounding hyper-nationalist rhetoric against its rivals, and claiming Chinese people abroad as part of the PRC's society of people. The DPRK is hyper-nationalistic and racist at its core. The USSR tapped Russian nationalism to advance its image, Democratic Kampuchea was highly chauvinistic glorifying growing rice. Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-30931586679438331202023-01-11T23:21:45.352+13:002023-01-11T23:21:45.352+13:00I'll quote from Simon Schama's magnificent...I'll quote from Simon Schama's magnificent documentary series of the early 2000's, A <i>History of Britain</i> and specifically the episode <i>Forces of Nature</i>, that dealt with the French Revolution's impact on Britain:<br /><br /><i>But when the lynching started, Burke decided the revolution was, above all, an act of violence and he denounced it in his vitriolic Reflections On The French Revolution.<br /><br />"Amidst assassination and massacre and confiscation, perpetrated or meditated, "they are forming plans for the good order of future society. They act amidst the tumultuous cries of a mixed mob of ferocious men and women lost to shame."<br /><br />It's hard to know which was more painful - the fact that Burke's savage denunciation came from an erstwhile friend of liberty and reform, or that it flung back into the teeth of the radicals some of the mushier platitudes about nature.<br /><br />They had taken it as read that nature filled your bosom with the love of mankind, that nature was fraternal, was cosmopolitan.<br /><br />Rubbish, said Burke, nature is rooted in place. It teaches you to love YOUR birthplace, YOUR language, YOUR customs, YOUR habits. Nature is a patriot.</i>Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-68266062824361651912023-01-11T13:53:23.634+13:002023-01-11T13:53:23.634+13:00Nationalism versus universalism is in constant ten...Nationalism versus universalism is in constant tension, typically running in cycles with one peaking and then waning whilst the other rises. Nationalism is on the rise now, as it was in 1930's, and as I think it probably was in the years following the 1848 revolutions. Note the approximate 80-90 years gap between these dates, about the duration of a long human life.MarkThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199883270652041621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-33863999534854073932023-01-11T11:56:00.549+13:002023-01-11T11:56:00.549+13:00Deadly, persistent, pervasive and powerful - yes, ...Deadly, persistent, pervasive and powerful - yes, but given the body count, has nationalism killed <i>more</i> than Marxism, insofar as it is possible to disentangle nationalism from all the other -isms?davelennynoreply@blogger.com