Nationalist Internationalism: Theses on Nationalism

A voice over for an essay I spent a lot of time on, originally published on my Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/nationalist-internationalism?r=2sschq&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer Support 1Dime on Patreon to get access to over 100 exclusive episodes of the 1Dime Radio podcast and private Discord access: https://www.patreon.com/c/OneDime Timestamps for this Essay: 0:00 Nationalist internationalism 0:04 Nationalism's progressive role in history 2:28 Who's afraid of nationalism? 3:47 Do people still identify with the nation? 6:10 Patriotism versus nationalism 16:39 Anti-patriotism on the left 20:40 Oppressor nations versus oppressed nations 25:09 Ethnonationalism versus civic nationalism 29:56 Nationalism and democracy 34:33 National class consciousness 37:35 Do workers of the world have no homeland? 43:56 The only alternative to nationalism is more local tribalisms 50:01 There is no internationalist politics 1:00:22 Internationalism versus globalism 1:03:17 Am I a nationalist? 1:08:44 Conclusion: The Dialectic of Historical Progress 1:11:49 Footnotes / works cited More stuff like this to come in my forthcoming book, Post-Left Theory: Beyond Marxism, Anarchism, and Vibes, written with David McKerracher of Theory Underground and out October 15, 2026. If you enjoyed this and want to read the many essays in the book that have never been made public, or you simply want to support my written work, I would be grateful if you checked it out.