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Social Democracy and National Identity: The Ethnic Rift in the Belgian Workers' Party (1885–1914)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2007

Maarten Van Ginderachter
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Abstract

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The image of the Belgian Workers' Party as a solid party unchallenged by ethnic tensions and united around a common Belgianness does not stand up to historical scrutiny. Using the key concepts of imagined communities, ethnies, mythomoteur,and oppositional patriotism, this article argues that despite its undeniable integration into the political, social and economic structures of the Belgian nation-state, the BWP was ethnically divided between Flemish and Walloon socialists in the period 1885–1914.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of Social History , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 215 - 240
Copyright
2007 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Footnotes

I would like to thank the anonymous referees of the IRSH for their comments.