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Romantic Nationalism
Mazzini, Young Europe · 1831–1872 · Italy, Europe · Nationalist · Movement · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Each nation has a duty to constitute itself as a free republic, and free nations will federate in brotherhood.
Economic model
Association of labour and capital; hostility to both aristocratic privilege and class war.
Organisation of powers
Democratic republic with a unitary national state; insurrection against foreign empires.
Reading note
Nationalism began on the left, as the enemy of dynastic empire. Its migration rightwards is one of the largest movements in this atlas.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +03
Coded +3: association of labour and capital against both privilege and class war.
- Programme textThe Duties of Man rejects the socialist doctrine of rights in favour of duties and association.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −03
Coded −3: republican, anticlerical and committed to education.
- Programme textYoung Italy's programme required national education alongside political independence.
AU · Organisation of power · scored −03
Coded −3: a democratic republic with universal suffrage.
- Documented act or statuteThe Roman Republic of 1849 abolished the death penalty and granted universal male suffrage.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +02
Coded +2: a unitary national state, federated internationally.
- Programme textYoung Europe (1834) proposed a federation of free nations after each achieved independence.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +03
Coded +3: nationality as a duty owed within humanity.
- Programme textThe Duties of Man places duties to country between duties to humanity and to family.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +06
Coded +6: insurrection against foreign empire.
- Documented act or statuteOrganised repeated failed risings from 1834 and was sentenced to death in absentia.
Where it came from, and what came after
- gave doctrine toBaltic Restorationist Nationalism
The nineteenth-century doctrine that each nation should constitute itself as a free republic.
- gave doctrine toThree Principles of the People
Sun's nationalism was formulated in exile in Japan and Europe on the Mazzinian model.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
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- Euromaidan6.5
- Girondins9.8
- Bolivarian Republicanism10.0
- Négritude and Fanonism10.1
- Hong Kong Democracy Movement10.2
- Three Principles of the People10.2
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