Download or read book Socialism and the Idea of the Nation written by John J. Schwarzmantel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialism and the Idea of the Nation looks at the relationship between socialism and nationalism in both theory and practice in Europe over a broad time-span. The book discusses the origins and meaning of the nationalist idea, the concept of socialist internationalism and the transcendence of the idea of nation and socialism and nationalism in long established nation-states like England and France. It continues with an examination of socialism and nationalism in the late comers like Italy and Germany, socialism and nationalism in Austria, as an example of a multi-national state, nationalism and socialist revolution and primary and secondary concepts of nationhood.