Europe
See also: Irish Republicanism, Abertzale, and Brest CharterIn 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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“Is not our role to stand for the one thing which means our own salvation here but with which it will also be possible to save the world, and with which Europe will be able to save itself, namely the preservation of the white man and his state?”
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