Question

lord acton views on nationalism and theodor herzl views on nationalism

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Lord Acton was english historian and commentator, he is known for his condemnations of nationalism. He greatly desired to see liberty preserved, and saw nationalism as a threat to both minority groups and to democracy. He recognized that there could be no true "nation" as envisioned by the nationalists, as minority groups would always exist inside the nation's boundaries. Given this problem, the nation would then go about persecuting the minority groups within itself. Acton said that a state with only one ethnicity in it is imperfect, and that a state that seeks to somehow eliminate minorities will only destroy itself. Acton's voice was one of the most influential voices of the time in the wake of the Auschgleich, as problems arose within Hungary from minority groups who wanted their own nations as well. Was

Theodor Herzl was Chief architect of political Zionism. based on Jewish nationalism according to him all Jews were part of a single nation with a common heritage and they shared the same hopes for a national future built on a shared cultural patrimony, and Jewish people were to build the institutional framework through which they would develop their goal of an autonomous Jewish homeland. Originally envisioned conversion of all Jews to catholicism but when he saw so much antisemitism he questioned his commitment to assimilation and believed that the Jews needed a national homeland for protection.