Nationalism and Socialism : Marxist and Labor Theories of Nationalism to 1917

Contents: Foreword. 1. From nationalism to internationalism: the reconstruction of Hegels theory. 2. Marx and Engels: differences with Bakunin and Lassalle. 3. Nations colonies and social classes: the position of Marx and Engels. 4. From internationalism to nationalism: the perversion of German social Democracy. 5. Colonialism militarism and allied issues in Western Europe 1890-1917. 6. East European Marxism and the multi national state. 7. Nationalism imperialism and the labor and socialist movements in the United States. 8. Lenin and the formulation of a Marxist nationality theory. Source notes. Bibliography. Index.

Nationalism and Socialism is a study in the history of Marxian ideas : but it is also an attempt to show how the ideas are related to the society from which they sprang and how the changes in social relations were reflected in the emergence of a whole new formulation of nationalist theory. Horace Davis brings together for the first time in English the contributions of the many writers in the Marxist and labor camps to the development of nationality theory down to 1917. The verbal battles between Bakumin and Engels and between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin are shown to treat issues that marked the course of the entire twentieth century.