Social Patriotism is an openly patriotic standpoint which combines patriotism

Patriotism

Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...

 with socialism

Socialism

Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

. It was first identified at the outset of the First World War when a majority of Social Democrats

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

 opted to support the war efforts of their respective governments and abandoned socialist internationalism and workers solidarity

Proletarian internationalism

Proletarian internationalism, sometimes referred to as international socialism, is a Marxist social class concept based on the view that capitalism is now a global system, and therefore the working class must act as a global class if it is to defeat it...

.

At the International Socialist Conference

Zimmerwald Conference

The Zimmerwald Conference was held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 through September 8, 1915. It was an international socialist conference, which saw the beginning of the end of the coalition between revolutionary socialists and reformist socialists in the Second International.-...

 at Zimmerwald

Zimmerwald

Zimmerwald was until 31 December 2003 an independent municipality in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is located on a hill in the proximity of the city of Bern in the Bernese Mittelland...

 the social patriots were identified as "the openly patriotic majority of the formerly Social-Democratic leaders" in Germany

Germany

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, as well as the opposition-mannered center of the party around Kautsky

Kautsky

Kautsky:* Minna Kautsky, née Jaich , Austrian-Bohemian actress, writer ** Karl Kautsky , Czech-German philosopher and politician, leading theoretician of Marxism, husband of Luise...

, and to which in France

France

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 and Austria

Austria

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 the majority, in Britain

United Kingdom

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 and Russia

Russia

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 a part of the leaders (Henry Hyndman

Henry Hyndman

Henry Mayers Hyndman was an English writer and politician, and the founder of the Social Democratic Federation and the National Socialist Party.-Early years:...

, the Fabians

Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...

, the Trade-Unionists, Georgi Plekhanov

Georgi Plekhanov

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as "Marxist." Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where...

, Ilia Rubanovich, the Nasha Zarya

Nasha Zarya

Nasha Zarya was a legal Menshevik monthly, published in St. Petersburg, Russia from 1910 to 1914. Lenin described it as 'the liquidators' centre in Russia'....

) group.

See also

• Revolutionary defeatism
• Yellow socialism
  Yellow socialism
  Yellow socialism has two meanings. It is primarily a system of government devised by Pierre Biétry in 1904, that offers the working classes a contrasting alternative to "red socialism" . It was prominent in the early twentieth century prior to World War I, competing with Marxism for the minds of...
  
  
• Social fascism
  Social fascism
  Social fascism was a theory supported by the Communist International during the early 1930s, which believed that social democracy was a variant of fascism because, in addition to a shared corporatist economic model, it stood in the way of a complete and final transition to communism...
  
  
• National socialism
• Proletarian internationalism
  Proletarian internationalism
  Proletarian internationalism, sometimes referred to as international socialism, is a Marxist social class concept based on the view that capitalism is now a global system, and therefore the working class must act as a global class if it is to defeat it...
  
  
• World revolution
  World revolution
  World revolution is the Marxist concept of overthrowing capitalism in all countries through the conscious revolutionary action of the organized working class...