Undoubtedly the period of the second international 1889 19141 represents the apogee of the international labor movement despite the many schisms and divisions within and between its member parties and organizations the second international managed to bring together socialists from most countries that had a movement. The resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon against both those who argue that the radical tradition has ignored and underestimated nationalism and those who accuse it of economic reductionism this careful analysis of the idea of the nation as it was developed in the work . Against those who argue that socialist theorists have historically underestimated nationalism and hence its place in the politics of nation building forman skillfully interprets the ideas of the most famous thinkers of the international labor movement to reveal that these theorists did indeed take the concepts of nation and nationalism seriously and that within their writings one can end . Get this from a library nationalism and the international labor movement the idea of the nation in socialist and anarchist theory michael forman the resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon against both those who argue . Michael forman nationalism and the international labor movement the idea of the nation in socialist and anarchist theory university park pa2007