What is "internationalism"

Internationalism \In`ter*na"tion*al*ism\, n.

1. The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.

2. The doctrines or organization of the International.

1851, from international + -ism.

n. political, economic and cultural cooperation between nations

1. n. the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences [ant: nationalism, nationalism]

2. quality of being international in scope; "he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology" [syn: internationality]

Internationalism may refer to:

• Multilateralism ( International relations), multiple countries working in concert on a given issue
• Internationalism (politics), a political movement that advocates a greater economic and political cooperation among nations
• Internationalism, a current within the socialist movement opposed to World War I
• Cosmopolitanism, the view that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality as opposed to communitarian-ism, patriotism and nationalism
• Internationalism (linguistics), the groups of words called internationalisms
• Proletarian internationalism, the Marxist view of internationalism
• Internationalism (US), the United States political party
• Internationalism (Venezuela), the Venezuelan political party

In linguistics, an internationalism or international word is a loanword that occurs in several languages (that is, translingually) with the same or at least similar meaning and etymology. These words exist in "several different languages as a result of simultaneous or successive borrowings from the ultimate source" (I.V.Arnold). Pronunciation and orthography are similar so that the word is understandable between the different languages.

It is debated how many languages are required so that a word is an internationalism. The term is uncommon in English linguistics, although English has contributed a considerable number of words to world languages, e.g. the sport terms: football, baseball, cricket, and golf.

Internationalism is a left communist political party in the United States. It is a section of the International Communist Current.

The Internationalism group was founded in New York in 1970, partly by former members of the News and Letters group of Raya Dunayevskaya. In 1972, Internationalism sent a proposal for international correspondence to twenty groups:

"(...) Together with the heightened activity of the working class there has been a dramatic growth in the number of revolutionary groups having an internationalist communist perspective. Unfortunately, contact and correspondence between these groups has largely been haphazard and episodic. Internationalism makes the following proposal with a view towards regularising and expanding contact and correspondence between groups having an internationalist communist perspective (...)"

This proposal met with a positive response from the Révolution Internationale group in France, and led to several meetings being held in 1973-74. In January 1975, the Internationalism group participated along with Révolution Internationale, World Revolution from Britain, Internacionalismo from Venezuela, Acción Proletaria from Spain and Rivoluzione Internazionale from Italy, in a conference which led to the foundation of the International Communist Current, of which Internationalism then became the US section.

Internationalism is a left communist group in Venezuela.

The party was founded in 1964 around Marc Chirik, a member of the Left Communists of France until the latter's dissolution in 1952. It published ten issues of its review Internacionalismo between 1964 and 1968. The group participated in the founding conference of the International Communist Current (ICC) in 1975, and is today the ICC's section in Venezuela where it still publishes the review of the same name.

Internationalism is a political principle which advocates a greater political or economic cooperation among nations and peoples, and whose ideological roots can be traced to both socialism and liberalism.

Supporters of this principle are referred to as internationalists, and generally believe that the people of the world should unite across national, political, cultural, racial, or class boundaries to advance their common interests, or that the governments of the world should cooperate because their mutual long-term interests are of greater importance than their short-term disputes.

Internationalism is, in general, opposed to nationalism, jingoism or chauvinism, and war, and proponents can include supporters of any of the four socialist Internationals and organizations such as the United Nations or the World Federalist Movement.