Marxism and national identity
Subtitle: socialism, nationalism, and national socialism during the French fin de siècle
By: Robert Stuart.
Series: SUNY series in national identities
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Socialism -- France -- History.; Nationalism -- France -- History.; National socialism -- France -- History.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.