Abstract
Abstract This article examines the problems socialism has experienced in its relationships with nationalism and national identities. These problems are grouped under the headings of universalism and particularism. It uses historical material, much of it drawn from Ireland, to illustrate these problems. It examines, for example, the emergence of socialism in the Ireland of the 1830s and 1840s, and the socialist republicanism of James Connolly. It argues, not for a socialist nationalism, but for a radical post‐nationalist citizenship in which national identity is detached from nationalism.
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