ABSTRACT
The nationalism of ancient times was purely political in character. It often flared up spontaneously when the external relations between peoples became sharply strained. Unlike the landowning class, the middle class regards the territory as something more valuable than a piece of land. The territory serves this class in the capacity of a consumer market. Class struggle assumes the character of a social problem wherever the development of the forces of production disturbs the constitution of the relations of production, i.e., when the constitution of the relations of production is archaic, obsolete, and no longer suitable to the further development of production. The great landowners are the class which lives from land rent. Naturally, their income consists in part of interest derived from their capital, but the principal source is land rent. The nationalism of the landowning class has another characteristic: this class has preserved the whole store of traditions amassed during the feudal period.
