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Entry: Nationalism is What We Need Now--The Case for an "Unpatriotic Conservatism" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/nationalism_is_what_we_need_now_a_case_for_an_unpatriotic_conservatism#23405 Post contents: Let us indeed stick to the PROPER definitions. There is very little traditional distinction between the terms, they would have been used interchangeably by most people, though perhaps patriotism was and is more popular. Nationalism if anything was a nobler word since it was more often used by and applied to those seeking their freedom and sovereignty from the oppression of others. The word you all are looking for is imperialism. Serbian nationalists didn't cause WW1, Austrian imperialists did. More to the point the left would have used nationalism and patriotism interchangeably until very recently and detested them both, this hairsplitting over the terms today is just semantic sleight of hand. The very word nationalism implies loyalty to the nation, and that is a quality they most assuredly don't have, patriotism, as we have seen on this thread, can be stretched and pummeled into meaningless support for virtually anything. Deconstruction. In this overcrowded and shrinking world imperialism is all but dead (except for the ongoing colonialism is that being waged by the Western left against their own peoples, of course). Those waging an "anti-nationalist" crusade against the nations of the West don't really believe they are preventing war, it's a canard. The worst among them are pure racists, genocidal in intent, the best are fuzzy egalitarians, objectively genocidal, who think that eliminating the successful peoples and nations, the cultural Kulaks, of the West will somehow marshal in a brave new one-world. Sent at: 2008 05 16