Messianic nationalism combines western hostility with universal salvation claims

Evidence

A Russian writer once said that Pan-Slavism “engenders an implacable hatred of the West, a morbid cult of everything Russian;…the salvation of the universe is still possible, but it can come about only through Russia… The Pan-Slavists, seeing enemies of their idea everywhere, persecute everybody who does not agree with them…” (Victor Bérard, L’Empire russe et le tsarisme, 1905.) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2444

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Compact working definition of messianic nationalism: hatred of the West plus the claim that universal salvation flows only through the given nation.

Related

• Pan-Slavism fused xenophobia with a claim to universal salvation (similarity 0.82)