Nationalism is a world phenomenon which is extremely influential and complicated, and which it isnot easy to get a clear
understanding of . The realistic foundations the existence of
nationalism relies on,consists of the grave unbalance betWeen the social developments of all nations the world over, the extremeinjustice in the actual world older, the expansionism of the curent capitahst social order, and theconflict of interests between the national
countries and the forces of national separatism, etc., many ofthe foregoing important facts being closely connected with the international capitalism. The content ofnationalism may be chamterized as follows. As regards those who have not yet set up their nationalcountries, they will advocate the national separation and regard the setting up of a national country as theultimate objective for which their nationalism is seeking; as for those western countries, which havealready been national and, what is more, developed countries, they will continue to carry outexpansionism in political, economic, cultural and military fields, and take all of them as the maincontent of their nationalism; and as concerns those who have already been national and developingcountries, they will pursue the policy to struggle against hegemonism abroad while develop the nationaleconomy at home, and take it as the core content of their nationalism. Still contained in the content ofthe contempoary nationalism is the constriction between the working class and the capitalist class, andof this contradiction the predominant aspect continues to be the nationalism of the internationalcapitalism.