Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Marx's internationalism was based on a solidarity among workers, not a solidarity among owners of big capital, as per globalism. Nationalism doesn't have to be ugly, chauvinist and violent, but in the hands of the right it has sometimes shown an unfortunate tendency to take on these characteristics.

A healthy nationalism to oppose globalism should be based no the understanding that the nation state is currently the best unit of democratic self-determination available, while peacefully respecting other nations, not that ones own country is superior to the rest.
Isn't your second paragraph there a mass of contradictions?

And anyway, Marx was a German; his innate idea was always based on the principle that the "German Way" would obviously always be predominant.