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Proletarian nation was a term used by 20th century Italian nationalist intellectuals such as Enrico Corradini to refer to Italy and other nations that they regarded as being productive, morally vigorous, and inclined to bold action, which they considered to be characteristics associated with the proletariat.[1] Corradini admired revolutionary proletarian movements such as syndicalism for their tactics, although he opposed their goals, and he wanted to inspire a radical nationalist movement that would use similar tactics in service of different goals: a movement that would advocate imperialist war in place of class revolution, while maintaining the same methods of "maximum cohesion, concentration of forces, iron discipline and utter ruthlessness."[2] Corradini associated the concept of proletariat with the economic function of production, arguing that all producers are in a moral sense proletarian (not only the workers, but also productive owners and entrepreneurs), and he believed that all producers should be at the forefront of a new imperialist proletarian nation.[3]
The concept of a "proletarian nation" was later adopted by fascists after World War I, and it was used to attempt to draw the working class away from socialism and communism by arguing that the struggle between classes could be replaced by a struggle between nations, specifically between "proletarian nations" and plutocracies.[4]
- ^ Talmon, Jacob Leib. The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution: The Origins of Ideological Polarization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US: University of California Press, pp. 483-484.
- ^ Talmon, Jacob Leib. The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution: The Origins of Ideological Polarization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US: University of California Press, p. 484.
- ^ Paul Corner. The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini's Italy. Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 16.
- ^ David Nicholls. Adolf Hitler: a biographical companion. Santa Barbara, California, US: ABC-CLIO, 2000, p. 245.