ARE LIBERALISM AND NATIONALISM

Are Liberalism And Nationalism Compatible?

Are Liberalism And Nationalism Compatible?

Introduction

Liberalism And Nationalism are Compatible with each other. A term used mostly for fixed rather critical to the interests of the nation's ideologies. Nationalist ideologies designed to preserve the national character perceived as something special, to strengthen and distinguish them from others. This directed at strengthening the internal unity of separation from the outside it directed against minorities in their own country (Vincent 1995,p. 45). This work built on two foundations: the historical and content. In the first analyzed the root of liberalism and the second try to develop its position. Nationalism was the oldest, first, a feeling that includes, its natural relationship with the same sentiment in people was the lack of affinity, no apparent conflict, it was not inherent antagonism to prevent nationalities that to grow and close to each other. Essentially this was the nationalism of the first 800, and politicians saw in some of the free trade the right way in their dream of a rapid development of an effective international, non-formal, through the peaceful, convenient movement of goods and ideas from nations recognize that a perfect harmony of interests among democratic peoples. The overflow of nationalism in an imperial dimension extinguished all such hopes. While coexisting nationalities are able to help other without involving no direct antagonism of interests. Co-existing empires pursuing their own race territorial and industrial expansion are natural and inevitable enemy. Nationalism develops at the end of '800 is unique and called as resentful nationalism tended to self-defense, misled by his natural spirit of greed and burns and expansion.

Discussion

It is according to the liberal persuasion, the principal rule of human society, are to align the state and its regulations. Liberalism stands for all forms of absolute rule, as well as in opposition to extremist democratic or anarchist views (Tambini 2001,p. 32). Although his attention directed to the defense of his liberty by the state, he poses the necessity of the state itself is not in question. All nationalism has a heightened appreciation of their own nation and the common sense of its own particularity as superiority over other peoples and national minorities. It alleged in economic and territorial issues for their own interests a priority right. Chauvinism (coined by the military form of nationalism), the national self interest, is often the sole, supreme benchmark for the policy. The emergence of nationalism closely linked to the emergence of nation states. Major impetus for the development oriented nationalist attitudes came from the French Revolution.

The idea of the nation also connected with the idea of sovereignty, the basis of nation-state principle. Only the formation of the modern nation gave rise to an ideology capable of awareness of belonging to the state-organized large social group. In the 19th Century nationalist movements studied include Germany, Greece, Italy and Hungary, on the basis of historical, linguistic and cultural affinity and political one, to a powerful nation-state oriented, national identity for ...