MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 1912-16

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E. CORRADINI, ITALIAN NATIONALISM

Enrico Corradini, Italian Nationalism, Milan, 1914.

Written before the war. The article “Na- tionalism and Socialism” (January 14, 1914) contains interesting formulations by an imperialist of a small nation. France and Great Britain = banks with a capital of 300 and 400 thousand million (p. 162). The plutocratic nations (France, Britain, Germany) “are pacifist” (sic!) (ha-ha!) “mainly because they are plutocratic” (188), whereas the proletarian nations (Italy), in fighting against Turkey were fighting the plutocratic nations (sic!! ha-ha!). Imperialism (he says) is a modern phenomenon, but it divides nations into plutocratic and proletarian; “it [nationalism] is the socialism of the Italian nation in the world” (156).			N.B.
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Other nations are big-time robbers: that is the substance of this wretched book. “Socialism” consists in our little and poor nation overtaking or trying to overtake the big robbers so that it may rob more!!