Socialism national or international routledge library editionskit

Dr Borkenau discusses the ideals of international socialism in the light of the realities of a world of strife and struggle He maintains that socialist internationalism of the old type has little relation to the problems of the present The world has become much nationalist and the labour movements of all countries have had to give in to the forces of nationalism He is sceptical of the revival of liberal democratic internationalism in the League and the attempt to revive the League in the shape of a Federal Union He believes however that powerful forces are working in the direction of the growth of supernational units and points to symptoms of an impending sudden collapse of nationalism which would enable Labour to put itself at the head of an Anglo American peace similar to the Roman piece which for centuries gave quiet and prosperity to the world Socialism National or International Routledge Library Editions Political Science Volume 48Writer As a university student in Leipzig his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis Borkenau is known as one of the pioneers of the totalitarianism theory..