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Those factors that have been the two most significant barriers to the creation of nation-states in alphabetical order
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Colonialism and Imperialism
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An idea by Jean Jacques Rousseau of the collective will of the people as a whole, criticsed by some as a tyranny of the majority
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General Will
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The formerly dominant socialist principle of placing greater emphasis on group priority and ownership over that of the individual
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Collectivism
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Nationalism within areas formerly under foreign control seeking to unite indistinct peoples into one national identity, often via leadership cults, socialist nationalism, or religion, often Islam
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Post-Colonial Nationalism
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A socialist concept of a by-product of capitalism in which people - particularly the proletariat - developed awareness of their position in the class system, leading to class conflict and revolution
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Class Consciousness
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That which social democracy believes is undermined by inequality, class or otherwise, requiring welfarism, education, and social justice
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Society
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The classical Marxist view of a transitional phase between revolution and communism
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Dictatorship of the Proletariat
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An Italian republican who emphasised a spiritual and religious foundation to national identity, with the interests of the nation being paramount over those of the individual
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Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 - 1872)
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The process by which most nation-states have come about
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Self-Determination
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A Leninist process in which there would be one party, in which open discussion could occur, its decisions embodying the will of the people, making further debate anti-revolutionary, criticised as being the source of much repression
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Democratic Centralism
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That which socialists believe should be strong and centralised, while not being dominated by any one individual or group so as to guarantee equality and reduce privilege
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The State
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The idea of a shared culture being foundational to a nations organic unity, seeking either a liberal protection of a culture as in Wales or the expansion and dominance of a culture as in Nazi Germany
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Cultural Nationalism
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An early democratic socialist who saw capitalism as corrupting, requiring state intervention and trade unionism to overcome it, though via constitutional and reformist means
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Beatrice Webb (1858 - 1943)
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That branch of socialism usually identified with communism that seeks the establishment of socialism by means of revolution
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Revolutionary Socialism
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The five foundational common identities of nationalism in alphabetical order
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Culture, Ethnicity, Geography, Language, and Religion
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Those two individuals in alphabetical order who disagreed with Karl Marx in that they believed that socialist revolution could arise in economically underdeveloped societies
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Rosa Luxemburg and Vladimir Lenin
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That which socialists view optimistically by seeing it as malleable, cooperative, altruistic, and fraternal, though these attributes having been diluted by capitalism
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Human Nature
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A democratic socialist view of Beatrice Webb's that voters, having no vested interest in capitalism, would elect socialist governments which would lead to a gradual development and progress of socialism
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Inevitability of Gradualism
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Those socialists such as Robert Owen who emphasised cooperation and communal ownership, considered naive by Marx
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Utopian Socialists
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The belief that common societal interests can be advanced by the world uniting across boundaries
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Internationalism
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