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Mandatory Fields
Worth O.
2019
June
Journal Of World-Systems Research
The fifth international: International or global?
Published
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Optional Fields
Internationalism; left nationalism Rosa Luxemburg
25
2
321
328
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Worth welcomes Amin¿s call for a renewal of Internationalism, but he is critical of the ¿significant shortcoming of understanding an internationalist strategy around a traditional collection of national struggles.¿ Recalling Rosa Luxemburg¿s contributions to the second International at the 100th anniversary of her brutal murder, he notes: Luxemburg ¿ condemned any form of nationalism as a tool used by the bourgeoisie in order to divide the proletariat¿.[F]or Luxemburg, the whole notion of dialectical materialism should be understood not through the development of existing structures but as a process where new structures emerge and develop over time. Likewise, Internationalism should not be something restricted by structures of the present, nor by pre-existing norms such as national sovereign, but instead be understood as a mechanism that could move beyond the confines of the present towards the realms of the `possible¿¿.
1076-156X
10.5195/jwsr.2019.957
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