Nationalism & Democratic Socialism the Term Paper

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These commonalities encompass all aspects of the society, which includes the economy, the political structure, history and culture of the nation.

Modern nationalism traces one of its roots to the history of Germany, wherein, for as early as 1815, the pursuit for nationalism became evident through the student associations or "Burschenschaften," which promoted and encouraged German nationalism through the circulation of the writings of Johann Fichte and Lutheranism. Strong antagonism against the rise of nationalism in Germany is reflected in the conceptualization of the Carlsbad Decrees, which censors publications and other secular forms of propaganda and writings from these student associations. The suppression of the civil society's assertion of their nationalism and liberalism broke out with the occurrence of an insurrection against the Frankfurt Parliament's discriminating legislation in 1848. However, unlike the revolutions that took place asserting nationalism in European countries during the same period, the attempt to liberate Germany from monarchy through expression of nationalism failed.

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German unification became successful only with the declaration of a German Empire in thirty years after in the 1870s. Nationalistic sentiments against the empire, however, prevailed, which illustrates that the failure of nationalism to create an egalitarian society in German did not result to the abolishment of this movement, and instead led to its further development and reinforcement in the psyche of German citizens in the late 19th and early 20th centuries......

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