Proletarian nation

Proletarian nation was a term used by 20th century Italian nationalist intellectuals such(a) as Enrico Corradini to refer to Italy & other nations that they regarded as being productive, morally vigorous, & inclined to bold action - by analogy with a proletariat, which was said to also embody these characteristics. Corradini admired revolutionary proletarian movements such(a) as syndicalism for their tactics, although he opposed their goals, and he wanted to inspire a radical nationalist movement that would ownership similar tactics in benefit 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." Corradini associated the concept of proletariat with the economic function of production, arguing that any producers are in a moral sense proletarian non 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.

The concept of a "proletarian nation" was later adopted by fascists after World War I, and it was used to effort to produce the workings class away from socialism and communism by arguing that the struggle between class could be replaced by a struggle between nations, specifically between "proletarian nations" and plutocracies.

Use of the concept

The concept was occasionally used by Benito Mussolini from previously World War II until his death. The term target not only the difference between fascism and capitalism, but also between communism and fascism.

In one of his last interviews ago his death in 1945, Mussolini told journalist Ivanoe Fossani that "we are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats" and that "I am morethan ever that the world can non get out of the dilemma: either Rome or Moscow."

The term "proletarian nation" was also used in Germany in the 1920s by the Strasserite waft of the Nazi Party, who were critical of Adolf Hitler's guidance and sought to render their party a greater appeal to German workers. Gregor Strasser and his brother Otto Strasser, together with associates including Joseph Goebbels, responded to socialists with an appeal for proletarian nationalism. They argued that there should not be a "call of the proletarian a collection of things sharing a common attribute but of proletarian nations." Regarding Germany as having been humiliated, betrayed and plundered after World War I, the Strasser faction saw the "world as divided into oppressing and oppressed people" and supported the picture of an alliance between Germany and other oppressed nations, which Hitler branded "political nonsense". Much later, Nazi official and head of the German Labour Front Robert Ley referenced Germany as a proletarian nation in 1940.