Marxism and national identity : socialism, nationalism, and national socialism during the French fin de siecle / Robert Stuart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuart, Robert, 1947-

Series:

SUNY series in national identities.

SUNY series in national identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--France--History.

Socialism.

Nationalism--France--History.

Nationalism.

National socialism--France--History.

National socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Post-Marxists argue that nationalism is the black hole into which Marxism has collapsed at today's "end of history." Robert Stuart analyzes the origins of this implosion, revealing a shattering collision between Marxist socialism and national identity in France at the close of the nineteenth century. During the time of the Boulanger crisis and the Dreyfus affair, nationalist mobs roamed the streets chanting "France for the French!" while socialist militants marshaled proletarians for world revolution. This is the first study to focus on those militants as they struggled to reconcile Marxism's two national agendas: the cosmopolitan conviction that "workingmen have no country," on the one hand, and the patriotic assumption that the working class alone represents national authenticity, on the other. Anti-Semitism posed a particular problem for such socialists, not least because so many workers had succumbed to racist temptation. In analyzing the resultant encounter between France's anti-Semites and the Marxist Left, Stuart addresses the vexed issue of Marxism's involvement with political anti-Semitism.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

“For us the World!”: The Guesdists against the Nation

“Dupes of Patriotism”: Nationalism as Bourgeois Hegemony

“National Economics”: Protection, Migrant Labor, and French Marxism

“Proletarian Patriotism”: The Guesdists and the Nationalist Temptation

“Savage, Brutal, and Bestial Mentalities”: The Guesdists and Racism

“A Class of Madmen”: Marxists Confront National Socialism

Conclusion

Ideology and Terminology

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-299) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482278

0791482278

9781423756125

1423756126

OCLC:

64563578