Centro Escolar University – Mendiola-Manila College Education Department – Dentistry ORO,CHARLOU J. TCW 11 PROF. VALDENARRO 3/24/2020 Learning Activity: Imaginary Interview Further research/read on Guiseppe Mazzini, Woodrow Wilson, Karl Marx or Vlademir Lenin. Conduct an imaginary interview with one (1) of them. In this interview, have you selected figure answer to the following questions: 1. What do you think is nationalism? A diversion. Which he seriously underestimated. Marx was an internationalist who thought that class interest would overcome national identifications. He was so confident that this would happen because of the normal operation of capitalism and class struggle that he never bothered to develop an articulated theory of nationalism. 2. What is necessary for the development of an international order? Based on my research Karl Marx hoped for a global communist order and believed this would come about through the replacement of capitalism with communism. There are several ways Marx believed this might happen but felt the most likely would be global proletarian revolution. Of course, he was writing in the 19th Century, I doubt he would say the same thing now. 3. What do you think of the League of Nations? Marx died long before the League of Nations was formed. Had he lived to see it, he would have most likely deemed it a reactionary organisation formed by the bourgeois and aristocratic nations on the basis of shared values of imperialism and a desire to “peacefully” divide the world up among various empires. It is unlikely that Marx would have been much impressed by the League of Nations and he would certainly have abhorred its strong anti-communist preoccupations. The League of Nations sponsorship of the White Armies and attempted counterrevolution in Civil War Russia would certainly have drawn some sharp words from Marx. 4. What is the role of revolution in internationalism? Marx believed that internationalism was essential for the complete transition to a communist society. The Communist Manifesto states, “The workers have no country; we cannot take away from them what they have not got.” Frederick Engels states in “The Principles of Communism”, a forerunner to the Manifesto, that it will be impossible for a socialist society to take place in one country alone. Marx and Engels said that the proletariat in different countries were all in the same situation of their labor being exploited for profit by the capitalist class. Therefore internationalism is an essential belief of communism. Also a single socialist country cannot resist the interferences of the capitalist world forever (think of the fall of the Soviet Union). The Communist Manifesto says it best—“Workers of the world unite” REFERENCES: WWW.QUORA.COM https://www.jstor.org/stable/42742754?seq=1 WWW.TANDFORD.COM
