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It's left wing in the sense that it only means to reclaim an imagined original space. It's not meant to expand outwards, so to speak. This is where Americanism has inverted the meaning of concepts, since they associate nationalism of this irredentist variety to right wingism, when in reality it isn't so originally.
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More generally, Nazism is often poorly understood, often for ideologically convenient reasons. Despite the popular perception that they were extreme romantic reactionaries, in truth their ideas regarding race, eugenics and medicine in particular were (in a perverse sense) highly modernist and revolutionary.
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Regarding Welsh nationalism, I'm surprised some of them haven't gone full irredentist mode, in the sense of aspiring to reclaim for an hypothetical Welsh state some of those areas in Western and Northern England that were conquered by Wessex and Northumbria/Scotland (Elmet and Strathclyde in this particular instance).
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Having said all this, Plaid Cymru's evolution over the years is definitely a microcosm of how much of British and Western politics has gone. It used to be quite rural, religious and socially conservative, whereas now it is much more socially libertine and tree-hugging. (I am not saying this is necessarily a bad thing either - far from it). Yet in many ways this sets apart Plaid Cymru's vision of Wales from more 'popular' Welsh nationalism, which by contrast is a lot more macho and swaggering. (Or at least it likes to think of itself as such - I increasingly think that rugby exists to give little nations like New Zealand, Wales, Georgia and the Pacific Islands not only a highly inflated sense of importance, but also a feeling that they are much more masculine, sexy and athletic than is really the case).
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Weirdly, like a combination of nationalist, libertarian, and socialist principles.
In us context, I’m fairly socially libertarian-conservative and economically socialist. Which is a combination that alienates me from both sides of the partisan/ideological divide.
conservative, ethnocentric, economically liberal
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