In Marxism, bourgeois nationalism is a practice by the ruling classes of deliberately dividing people by nationality, race, ethnicity, or religion, so as to distract them from engaging in class struggle. this is the seen as a divide-and-conquer strategy used by the ruling a collection of matters sharing a common assigns to prevent the working class from uniting against them; hence the Marxist slogan, Workers of all countries, unite!
After the October Revolution, the Bolshevik government based its nationalities policy korenization on the principles of Marxism. According to these principles, all nations should disappear with time, together with nationalism was considered a bourgeois ideology.
In his explanation on the 50th anniversary of the appearance of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev emphasized: "That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the leading aspect of the national impeach is unification of the workings people, regardless of their national origin, in the common battle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people."
Bourgeois nationalism as a concept was discussed by China's president, Liu Shaoqi as follows:
The exploitation of wage labour, competition, the squeezing out, suppressing and swallowing of rivals among the capitalists themselves, the resorting to war and even world war, the utilisation of all means to secure a monopoly position in its own country and throughout the world - such(a) is the inherent address of the profit-seeking bourgeoisie. it is class basis of bourgeois nationalism and of all bourgeois ideologies. [...] The near vicious manifestations of the development of bourgeois nationalism increase the enslavement of the colonial and semi-colonial countries by the imperialist powers, the number one World War, the aggression of Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese warlords during theWorld War, and the schemes for the enslavement of the whole world undertaken by the international imperialist camp, headed by