University of Central Florida STARS PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements 1-1-1939 Changes in bourgeois nationalism: From the Jacobins to the "Munichites" Peter Wieden Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Book is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Wieden, Peter, "Changes in bourgeois nationalism: From the Jacobins to the "Munichites"" (1939). PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements. 382. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism/382 (From the Jaoobko to tb Wtmbh%tean) by Peter'Wiedm Oa the son hami* the subJugation of )the Buate$118, the Csmb, ths Slm, AX-a and Ethiobiana - and fl&ly &Leo the Spanlards -- bp the fasairt cumemro; snd, on the other, the nstiodal PWC for XSbemtion of the farrr Inanbred million people of Ohina fmm tb Japanese Ingerial&sts, slrd the natfozml af;mggIr *or liberation of the writma mibjected peoples agalaef the farcit* alien rule - all these fe.cta call far the closet attention by tha wrMzg &as$ ta the nat20ndt question* M~rmozyof the French Bmlution I- which, one hredan8 iifty w, gwpt away deoaging fadaUsm aod inaugurated a new ere. - fe s Forther iadocermeat to bhewrkingclsmsto enter into the study of the stlm.Ilat%ng . pmblsns rebting to the national tpeetion. The @emand 1l;alSan faecist8 deolarad merciless h~q~lpn',theprodnota (md ideas of the h'rench B6oolution. The rsmtf ionary bow~geoisi$.':ih-'el counttfer - ad not bast in 3amce -. - ia conWnua11y prerrared t~' betram of these prodtaEtr ard idatas. W uortdag alas&dsfq&r-)A I ths"e#~P$kodmtp~ and Idea8 against ths onwsrd of fasoget bar-%m. .. : ,) ,4 Jk -\+qi: ' !, ::, #, :i;.$',;,;, ;$;I $$::;? " Li:(+f$#/:p!:, I \ " '7-v; ..-.,,r7,, me ~kemh~m a did' bt thy iamgwate burgeois-dsmocratie lib.. -ties; as a pm@wmclosely related to fhe flrat, it dm brought the hen13:h to $he forefont of the worlb8a attention. Rreqpthee tbs naffolu wsp end are being formed in the procwa of the bollxgeoie-d~~~cratiarem~lutioa~ The breahmzp of femblisan, the llbemtion of the serfs, the eweof tb ~WZWWbmierr of ths esCates of the re* ard*af the guilba, the confiZbS8 oi tourn emd ea8te T- all this recmlted in s rallying together of the pews h%aa naf ion* psdbltr method to obecun, this gg~olutionsss_historical_orizia oJ tb mti-. The fascist ideologists tr~tto conver6 the nation -into a halll enimirl snd wlf wstical comity of #blood and soil". Fiey +mdd ifbto hLde from we the trntb that &ions arise apd vanish c~coordingto hietorical procmses: that they are not eternal, not something far above time and spaoo bPb mresent -lmnan develonmsnt f t is -necessary to ma-rer thts coturtercrvolutionary at bmpt to befog the issue by pointing to a whole seriep of historical facts* wttoe ~ollcgation, the dewfar the un%ficatioo&f the nuntoa nstio,q, red e &ere in comeot ath the =omfc d t eebow mTmlier in any p2QEifascount, t, bsmas.. tb sgrZier 16 gained ecoaomic and polit;%$ influence, the monclr did the o~rneptiop~f the nation arise, %ntwilclosrrt ~sbtionshipto the struggle $02 ~BPL~O~P~. 1 :f"'!i""'4, ' f ', , ii ('7 ,, Phe ~~a~mi~allyppogresgi~e tta~& aZty repablics o~~threnth. fsPdal -era as early as the middle of the fourteenth ~dwy~Simultaneo~sl~ with the fall of the nobility and the riae of democratto hndeacier within the mwOZQJO~JY)~~ of the city repibltca, the demmd as 83cp~~ssedthat this frame9mrk be burst agunder and Italy unit ad nationally* This CO~CW~~O~-8 most forcefay express& 3y OCoa di IUenzi, triMe of the Ro- people, WM ailed upon all the citiee of italp unitedly to throw off their Y* end to o~ldrepresentatives to a nations$ psrl$amenf %ti Bnwt* ,#r h 1. & I .? ' . -- ; >':?, . , I 1 .- 7 , .' I( i, I I .,.4- -?age2- medid Fr &-ded a united Prance d most of centralization. In mediem1 Hith f.ne mailer nobility from f~~*~~mcelerateb by the rnweral Oermanp, the national capita* of lm,mtmiem asla the Pearant lbsrj to coll.rpt~ewretcwly after the +20forp of the princes, and to rlee againI ) only in relation trith tho l'mnch 5 T I IbmluQion+ , I,Iu4 .I and the ? mommy, in ahort, *Blai?EW €3 ,(Iits birthI ,, 1 + , 8, , ,+:,;I$. 00-e $talin has taught .us'~QW :t-ol diatinguish the object chatacfelc istfca of the natf0~3 ', , 1 ag nation is a ~~tij~i&~ll;y:$~~%~@tablecommunity of -me' I territory, ecoaomia life*. and paychD'l$&od, (,- ,L -up manifested in.a comty of cultwe@.* - e ] td(#' ~hesfrobjective charact eristioa.ii6d* their nzbjective Completion tbroagfi nati~-~nalsentimnt, national contaoiousbes~. The neon19 Je.wmes a ma 321 t natton; it experlanoes and senses itsself to be a utas uaiw. In thaUhistoe . , of the P~enchR~lution, hndreds S;:1~ jqconvincing ! ..- r~ e~~mp3ssof this may be found, how p-sants and townben; the artibaas 'and intelleatuale from various districtat who had been separated by feuda3. di~iiiohs, feudal nridlegeo feudal f cuaaom, by dialect and mode of life, united in a pattonal maas and bar tw I breathed in French national eentlmenf pad national co~ciauanesstogether with the bregth of freedom. Opt of this rehlutionary inasa,expek:ien~oe+oee the. song ard flag of witr, the w~4~qeeilleiaewand the Trimlor, aroee the con8oiousness of being part of 'great aat ion, arose remluCionar~rpsf riatitma '< ft la no &&dent that the oonaishat champione of the batrgeoird- bgoolns a nation. Tm nation t this I , L I.. -44 '1-1 *Joseph Stalin, 1nternationd -Paer~ 9- -0s 3- RaJaffonal1.1~ Xt is notleeable that in %we nation tho demand imedlat elg wa8 to go yet a atep -there not only to ataka a people krto a nation, bu$ to join all peoplw in hamraoibJri !be oonwp0ion of the oit breeke through all the f%r$$mamifeatatlone of tbs EhRe== $he ctanception of extendtag f he =remlutioaax~r unity to ali mantrier, It $8 a ~oaeaiousneeoof a unllrewmi3 atimgglo, mib~aaLngall )nrmanitp, whfah wae eqreeesd in the pmclraafiolr of the Bighte of Hen, and whioh wm% ito upvsrd way to the Owman philorapher Fiohtete deohration of the uqequslitgr 00 dl that besro a humen aapeats# ta Beethoven' 8 rbirr2ng song of hwmivt 50 embraad, millions, by the Li'se of the wb63Le woR&$-e peme of the Rreaoh Remlution broke through flp ~mwoirala of femblism, mt aside toll barc%ere, united separated di~triptr,anb bmu&t together 3arrarlr aacl Bretone, Prottelac~aleand Lorrsinere, lato one uni$ed nation. J&w, emdf ad wl$h eotory, they wished to @weep foma~dand rdlte the dtJr of tbe lauPrul rase. &oh ie the trandeaoy of young ,rmlutiomaw eapffafiem, whiob ir refleoted in these dananda, the tend- tOW8rd8 fh8 tmif&mtfon of tho world through the produet ton and excbgej,i&~,gods, Bhfough techaiqoe, aolmaeme asd o~lcatione~In aahual faob;!,%he oation la but a stage in fhir 4wdop. but Q stage over whish f hey obi$ld of l&p, and g stage W~Wdu~bion is moh goartier fhaa use e upon eerfdomg hti neither crspitsliem nor the pat ion aaa the Mgbet, ewer of pmd~~ti~nrI& the dam of mpitellr* owiety, Ubertg, equslitg aad fraternity were pl~ag&&rnq&ae aaa tbeae aspirations* wha bad hitherto been e~laihdand opprerred hopdl that they would nu* belong to the nation as fres*Bud won they were oonv$aod of the faot tkt, with $he downfall of feudalhm, the hiwtory of oh81 rtqleswas not ended, fbab the clasr domination of tihe bwgeoirle wso aridng out of the vhtorp of aapibrJisrm and the boPrgeoiadamiwstia per*. olution. The nation wae divided into exploiters aab exploited, into wrpitslrr isfe and proletarians, into om~eaeingclassee and appreseed olsseerr In the ebruggle agaioet fsYdaliam, fbe.:natioa was 8 united fronb or the wbrkbng people, After the rio8oqr over feudalism, however, the Slmited, f b* bourgeofr, T-, rgght *be b the qPality of tbe nafion was tm- 8 $old, If'WXe arid= ouf of L, he struggle of ax1 working people -bet Ze f-9 $he nation *e more a& -re the denof th. 6amgmtvl% ere anb more am~pt the intereat8 of tbe elaae* The ted wrker, ' the r of all typere is dm part of the nstioh wlb~h&P8 is%Z&&ed W Yli-~$0# & $he abmgg1e $02 fv8e8omt the reolrltrtlons~~rorigtn F the untt ed front of all foilere -r the bwcmee geroepttbZe. 8e ir fs*c %tiincttfvelgprepared $0 he natiaa: Poadga rule ia even barder to a3(j,ure fbsn the meof ae;aiaat fore$gn eesr, ending a amvg of freedam, be it eosr so ll~auaqd ehadoyl. acl defensive warr, e 4p the memorp of that rmIutionsry paat when the maee oat%0 fight for ife freedom, when the united ma$ of eill toilere On $be other had, the wohmrs, in the Ctoufee of the2r. olaee irtruggla wiaat the bourgeoieie, must realglee that the ruriog obaa oontirvnzay wc~sentaits om egoistto claie;kr~e~ee*esa %ationaZ Saterestag: tbt tw ~Qiagolass holds down the proletariat in %hame of the b&iona3 as Po)) bueiaese e;Lm Iptm$eats" nub only a oloafc ansawrp. 4sa;le but se a p~$maug190apOD against the oppreese80 !&$a hemledge must derelop among clas~~asciolr.wrkera the &wpm% ni'afnta%of national unity and natioasliem.