AHC: Real National Socialism! AKA make Left-wing Nationalism more popular

As you might have been able to guess from the title, the idea here is to have Left-wing Nationalism remain popular "today" in at least a couple different countries. It's not mandatory by any means, but since I've always found the name 'National Socialism' to sound kind of cool, if you can have that be the name of the ideology/movement/whatever-you-want-to-call-it that would be nice.

The name is a joke, btw
 
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Were there any nationalists that tied their ethnic superiority to their nation's traditions of "superior government"? For example, suppose in Greece someone could have said that their democratic tradition was evidence of their ethnic superiority? Because from there someone could have argued that communism, as a "superior utopian society," was the ultimate destiny of their people

Ugh it's gross to think about ethnic superiority
 
Many early Marxists and similar left-wingers were nationalist, because both ethnic nationalism and socialism stood against the imperialism of the modern era. Mussolini, and Hitler from him, got a lot of his ideas from George Sorel, who tried to tie both of those ideas together, and Gregor Strasser was also a phenomenon in himself. Not to mention the strides towards nationalism in Joseph Stalin's USSR. Even today many ethnonationalist movements have left leanings.

I can't really say how to keep this early friendship intact until modern day (Marxism did, in fact, argue against national identity and called it a bourgeois phenomenon), but it is possible.
 

samcster94

Banned
Where would the Nordic countries today fall(as well as Finland, which is similar economically, even if not culturally or linguistically related) on this??? Scotland to a lesser extent has a bit of this in its DNA too. They do,esp. Sweden, use it to defend their economic and political system but not in a racist way. Of course, there are people like the Swedish Democrats(Neo Nazi sympathizers), who do use a right wing nationalism. No POD needed.
 
I'd argue that left-wing nationalism was the dominant trend in left-wing politics. Social Democrats often embraced ideals of patriotic socialism as a means of appealing to popular sentiment, even up to supporting their country's wars. Leninism and its descendants have a whole thing about supporting national self-determination, particularly prevalent in Maoism. The anti-colonial movement was heavily left-wing and often blended ideals of socialism with their nationalist struggles.

It would be more impressive to imagine a world where socialism was more antagonistic to nationalism.
 
Georg Büchner lives longer and writes a real political manifesto not just the Hessischer Landbote. In 1848 he's elected to the Frankfurt Parliament and acts as a leader of the radical left. In someway Germany gets united by communist nationalists inspired or lead by Büchner.
Edit: Oh snap I didn't see that this is in Post 1900
 
Huey Long survives to become a Senator and then joins forces with Father Coughlin. Together, they form a social / political movement that mixes leftist economics with right wing religious sentiment with sporadic anti semitic sloganeering..... .
 

QueerSpear

Banned
There's always National Syndicalism but to make it stick you have to prevent the Soviet Union from being created in the first place and strangle anarcho-syndicalism in its craddle.
 
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