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Entry: National Consciousness And Nationalism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/national_consciousness_and_nationalism#25377 Post contents: Historically there is a difference between Romantic Nationalism and loyalty to fellow citizens of a sovereign polity over against the foreigner. One shouldn't appear to exclude the possibility of Principled Nationalism as a loyalism that reasonably derives compulsion of loyalty from attributes of sovereignty. Neocons and all kinds of other one-worlders are very much interested in EQUIVOCATING national loyalties with romantic nationalism, and further extremes of national feeling which tend to be equated with racism, fascism etc. The whole approach is a smear-mongering one, aimed at detroying the basic loyalties of citizens to each other over against the foreigner. At the minimum, the nation exists only to compel allegiance of nationals to each other in just that case where the foreigner enters with aggression. To want to destroy these loyalties is also a wish to destroy civilization, so that the assumption of good faith may not reasonably be given to universalists, one-worlders, and others who are found continually trying to smear national loyalties as leading inevitably to horrors. Sent at: 2008 07 06