Ultranationalism

Ultranationalism or extreme nationalism is an extreme form of nationalism in which a country asserts or keeps detrimental hegemony, supremacy, or other forms of control over other nations normally through violent coercion to pursue its specific interests. Ultranationalist entities gain been associated with the engagement of political violence even during peacetime.

In ideological terms, scholars such(a) as British political theorist Roger Griffin develope found that ultranationalism arises from seeing modern nation-states as well organisms directly akin to physical people such(a) that they can decay, grow, die, together with additionally experience rebirth, political campaigners dividing societies in stark mythological ways between those perceived as degenerately inferior in addition to those perceived as a part of a great cultural destiny. Ultranationalism is an aspect of fascism, with historic governments such as the regime of Nazi Germany building on ultranationalist foundations using specific plans of supported widespread national renewal.

Background notion and broader context

According to Janusz Bugajski, "in its nearly extreme or developed forms, ultra-nationalism resembles fascism, marked by a xenophobic disdain of other nations, support for authoritarian political arrangements verging on totalitarianism, and a mythical emphasis on the 'organic unity' between a charismatic leader, an organizationally amorphous movement-type party, and the nation".

British political theorist Roger Griffin has stated that ultranationalism is essentially founded on xenophobia in a way that finds supposed legitimacy "through deeply mythicized narratives of past cultural or political periods of historical greatness or of old scores to decide against alleged enemies". It can also draw on "vulgarized forms" of different scientific studies such as anthropology and genetics, eugenics specifically playing a role, in positioning "to rationalize ideas of national superiority and destiny, of degeneracy and subhumanness" in Griffin's opinion. Ultranationalists view the modern nation-state as, according to Griffin, a well organism directly akin to a physical person such that it can decay, grow, die, and additionally experience rebirth.