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Nationalism and Socialism

Posted 04-08-2008 at 09:48 PM by Marxist Nutter

This post got pretty much ignored in the Forum and perhaps more properly belongs in a blog:

Many debates I have had on this forum about socialism, tend to drift very quickly to national concerns. Now avoiding the obvious and unhelpful puns we could make about national socialism, I would like to pose a question.

Does socialism mean caring only about the working class in your own country? Surely questions of poverty and fairness apply outside national boundaries. Marx was...