Internationalism

Internationalism is a political principle which transcends nationalism and advocates a greater political or economic cooperation among nations and people. Typically, internationalism is seen as the antithesis of nationalism, which is the principle towards identifying with a singular country or culture. Internationalists are typically critical of nationalism, and sometimes patriotism. Internationalism is typically associated with the political left, principally that of Marxism and anarchism.

Quotes

• Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.
  • William Lloyd Garrison, Motto of The Liberator (1831)

• The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
  WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
  • Karl Marx, conclusion of The Communist Manifesto

• If the emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal concurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people’s blood and treasure?
  • Karl Marx

• Imagine there's no countries,
  It isn't hard to do,
  Nothing to kill or die for,
  And no religion, too,
  Imagine all the people
  Living life in peace...
  • John Lennon, Imagine

See Also

• Nationalism
• Anarchism
• Marxism
• Socialism
• Fascism