Nation

Also known as “nationality”. A form of group or social community formed by a certain number of people. There is a distinction between general and specific references. In his article Marxism and the National Question, Stalin pointed out that a nation is a historically constituted stable community of people formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. Common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture are all important features of a nation. A nation is an organic community which has these features. Although Stalin’s thought about the nation are put forth for bourgeois nations, its fundamental principles are also applicable to nations at other phases of social development. This is a specific reference. However, in a wider sense, nation also refers to various historically constituted communities of people at different stages of social development, such as primitive, ancient, modern nations, or called savage, barbaric and civilized nations, etc. Bourgeois nations that arose during the rising period of capitalism and the socialist nations that were formed in the process of socialist revolution and construction on the basis of the fundamental transformation of the bourgeois nations are both civilized and modern nations. The term “nation” is also commonly used to refer to the various nations of a country or a region, such as the Chinese nation, the Indian nation, the Arab nation, etc. This is the concept of nation and its use in a wider sense…

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