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Origins in the 19th century
The "left" is often described as advocating "change" of traditional systems and institutions of a society, however the leftist regimes of [[Cuba]] and [[North Korea]] stoutly resist changes other leftist regimes abandoned 20 years ago after seven decades of stagnation and exploitation of the oppressed common people by a privileged leftist ruling elite.
The "left" is often described as advocating "change" of traditional systems and institutions of a society, however the leftist regimes of [[Cuba]] and [[North Korea]] stoutly resist changes other leftist regimes abandoned 20 years ago after seven decades of stagnation and exploitation of the oppressed common people by a privileged leftist ruling elite.
==Origins==
At the time of the French Revolution, when the exisitng order, or [[Ancien Regime]] had been overthrown, the idea of [[nationalism]] did no exist throughout most of Europe. During the violent years of 1793 and 1794 in France, a love of the ''Patrie'' or the nation was cultivated to replace the foundations upon which society had been built under the old order. Under the stimulus of this movement for national unification, Catholicism was faced with the competition of a worship of national patriotism. [[Nationalism]] grew out of this new will to construct and shape the political community. <ref>John Hall Stewart, ''A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution'' (Macmillan, New York, 1963). </ref><ref>David A. Bell, ''The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800'', (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_1_37/ai_109668489]</ref>
This transmutation of a love of God to a love of "the people" as being the basis for a social and politcal system spread across Europe and other parts of the world during the nineteenth century. In Germany it became a recognition and conciousness of "das Volk", later in Russia it was a dedication to the "narodny". By mid-century, Socialism as a doctrine sought to overthrow the existing order of society, dominated by the Church and aristocracy, by promoting atheism and nationalism. The basic tenet being to replace the individual's committment to love and serve God, with the individuals committment to love and serve the collective society.
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