FOUR TRENDS PROGRESSIVE AND REACTIONARY NATIONALISMS AND INTERNATIONALSMS

It seems that there are four qualitatively different trends in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. On the one hand there is the progressive nationalism of nations like Cuba. Wars of national liberation could be thought of as naturally trending towards progressive nationalism but that has not proven to be the case in much of the world.
Even the former Soviet Union could be lumped under this category.

Then there is the not so progressive nationalism of many other nations, say Saudi. The idea of a nationalistic capitalism is what I am pointing to and I suppose that is a lot of what imperialism is about with the imperialist and exploited nations having nationalists that think of nationalism as serving a small elite, usually but not necessarily capitalist in nature. The term comprador bourgeoisie comes to mind and so many nations have "traitor" rulers who sell out their peoples to foreign empires.

Then there is new world order capitalism or what Kautsky might call so-called ultra-imperialism. Maybe capitalism will unite the world and we will have an integrated world economy and certainly a more integrated and united world politically. In this area we keep on looking for the consolidation of national and even regional economies into one world economy with the idea of a sort of more integrated world scale capitalism.

Progressive internationalism would be the socialist or anarchist alternative ot capitalism on a world scale. "Workers of the world unite!", seems to express in a relatively simple slogan this concept. The various Internationals reflect the waxing an waning of this trend.