Unreflective partisanship

Tuesday 8 August

The term “nationalism” might be confusing. Nationalism can be a good thing and a bad thing, which means that that the term can not be used without qualification. When George Orwell wrote about nationalism in 1945, he seems to have intended it to mean: “unreflective partisanship”. That is much more to the point.

The W. article on Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism” gives a short summary of his thoughts on this topic: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606043801/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Nationalism