Left-wing Nationalism - Europe

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See also: Irish Republicanism, Abertzale, and Brest Charter

In Europe, a number of left-wing nationalist movements exist, and have a long and well-established tradition. Nationalism itself was placed on the left during the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars. The original left-wing nationalists endorsed civic nationalism which defined the nation as a "daily plebiscite" and as formed by the subjective "will to live together." Related to "revanchism," the belligerent will to take revenge against Germany and retake control of Alsace-Lorraine, nationalism could then be sometimes opposed to imperialism. Left-wing nationalists have historically led the separatism and autonomist movements in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Wales through the left wing party Plaid Cymru, Northern Ireland and Galicia (Galician nationalism).

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