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ical affiliation turns them into worshippers of social power and vio-lence. In the tirades of nationalist demagogues we can find expressed hatred against everything universal and International.

»When will the normal, orderly, sinccre sheeplike American (Croat-ian, Serbian, etc.) peoples awake and realize that their affairs are run by communists, outcasts, foreigners, renegades, socialists, termites and traitors.« (cit. in G. W. Allport)

They try to convince people that the ideas of communism and so-cialism are anti-nation. Mussolini and Hitler considered it their main duty to tum the class workers syndicates into national syndicates that is to free them from proletarian internationalism. The Nazis believed that the main enemy of the German nation was the internationalism of the working class and the Catholic Church. Some nationalists in our country propose that class syndicates be abolished so as to rid them of internationalism: the same people propose to fight against international communism as well as international Catholicism, so that

they may be replaced by national communism and national Catholicism. Many of these ideologists are members of the Yugoslav League of Communists. Their suggestions are not very original because this ideology has already been preached by fascists and nazis, but these ideologists of extreme forms of nationalism were morę consistent and intelligent because they stressed like A. Rosenberg (»Myth of the 20th Century«) that this internationalism had its roots in the rationalism, universalism, and individualism of the French Revolution, that it is necessary to liquidate the whole humanist tradition of European cul-ture. That is exactly what nationalists have aspired to sińce their ap-pearance on this continent because humanism means the proclamation of equal rights for all men regardless of their outward or incidental characteristics which arise from the accident of birth. Humanism over-comes every ethno-centrism, every stressing of one’s own social group or nation at someone else’s cost and it also overcomes a certain men-tality which Hegel called »the spiritual animal kingdom«. History de-monstrates that nationalists are not capable of solving the problem of equality among peoples and it is now elear why it is so. It is possible to solve them only from an international standpoint, from the stand-point of a huge communion of peoples from whom should be expelled every ethno-contrism, international hatred and prejudice. In a world where the national interests are subject to the egoistic interests of Capital, in which imperialistic aspirations rule, the only solution comes from the standpoint of an international workers movement. It is suf-ficient to go to the battlefield - in Viet Nam, so that we might be convinced, if we do not believe in the reality of the events which took place in our country in the period 1941-1945.

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