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Originally Posted by stribbor
that doesn't means that nationalist with ethnic background and/or belief in primordial characteristics of his nation, can't be a socialdemocrat or communist.
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I don't deny that. Social-Democrats and even Communists can sometimes be some sort of nationalists, but when the egalitarian principle inherent in these ideologies starts to permeate too much the very idea of the nationalism, it can prove detrimental to the social fabric of the nation in question. Just think of the ravages in people's minds and in the general level of culture caused in all areas of the former Yugoslavia by the extremely egalitarian "Yugoslav self-managing Socialism" (
socijalističko samoupravljanje). The egalitarianism of the consumer Capitalism is no better, to be sure.