Social Nationalism

Social Nationalism is a movement within the American Political Left that strives to create a Welfare State where citizens are dependent upon Social Welfare Programs thereby maintaining Government's power over the populace.
Saul Alinsky institutionalized the modern forms and National Social Restructuring. Many recent politicians and educators including Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama have advocated making the American voting populace dependent upon National Social Programs for every facet of their existence so that they wouldn't be able to obtain: food, housing, public protection, transportation, finance or energy production/transmition without Federal Government Aid. This Political Strategy mimics commercial Loyalty marketing practices.
Social Nationalism in other countries
The United Kingdom pays adults to stay home and not enter the workforce. All of these needs (Housing, food, clothing, transportation, medical care, education, public utilities), and many wants (entertainment, vacations, recreational travel) are all paid for by those who work. This leads to a Productive Class and a Dependent Class. The Productive Class naturally despises those who are able to work, and yet simply choose not to because others are providing for them. This Social Welfare System disincentivizes able-bodied/able-minded people from working.
Marx's View on National Movements
Although Karl Marx rejected nationalism as a final outcome of international class struggle, he tacitly supported proletarian nationalism as a stage to achieve proletarian rule over a nation, then allowing succeeding stages of international proletarian revolution. Marxism in certain instances has supported certain nationalist movements for utilitarian purposes if they are in the interest of class struggle,
Marx and Engels evaluated progressive nationalism as involving the destruction of feudalism, and believed that it was a beneficial step, but evaluated nationalism detrimental to the evolution of international class struggle as reactionary and necessary to be destroyed. Marx and Engels believed that certain nations that could not consolidate viable nation-states should be assimilated into other nations that were more viable and further in Marxian evolutionary economic progress.
Joseph Stalin promoted a civic patriotic concept called "revolutionary patriotism" in the Soviet Union. When Stalin joined Georgian Marxists, the Marxism in Georgia was heavily influenced by Noe Zhordania, who evoked Georgian patriotic themes and opposition to Russian imperial control of Georgia. Zhordania claimed that communal bonds existed between peoples that created the plural sense of "I" of countries, and went further to say that the Georgian sense of identity pre-existed capitalism and the capitalist conception of nationhood.<ref name="Ree, Erik 2002. Pp. 60"/>
Latin America
Fidel Castro and Ernesto Guevara both advocated National Identity. Capital and revenue needed to be Nationalized as a prerequisite to social reform. Eventually, the Nation-state would be subsumed into the International Brotherhood of Workers and Peasants. Nationalist Identity was simply a stage within the evolution of Socialist Doctrine.
Benefits of movement
Social Nationalism can contribute vitally needed resources to traditionally under-served communities. ACORN, SEIU, and other nationally-based advocate groups use mass organization, boycotts, and mass media exposure to draw attention to causes which they support. Many worthy goals have been attained by Social Nationalism, including: Environmental protection, Workers' Rights, equal community public education, Women's Suffrage, public health-care, minimum wage, taxpayer-sponsored Public housing, and Food assistance programs.
Some additional consequences
Taxpayer-sponsored work stoppage programs deprive human beings of many social interactions, sense of accomplishment, pride in a job well-done, intellectual stimulation, increased motor skills, verbal ability, and positive environmental influence.
Dependence on National Socialist Social Welfare Programs can be similar to a drug dealer giving a free "taste" of their product to new users so that they become addicted and have trouble continuing to function without it.
20th Century Examples
*Hoover Dam
*New Society
*Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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