Abstract
This session looks at the tensions and articulations between nationalism, socialism and cosmopolitanism. It examines how socialist movements have attempted to articulate the struggle for social justice with the national question, oscillating between the affirmation of peoples' rights and the search for transnational solidarity. The idea of a cosmopolitan society is evoked as a way of overcoming the contradictions between national sovereignty and international cooperation. From this perspective, cosmopolitanism appears as a response to the limits of democracy confined to nation-states, particularly in the face of the transnational economic dynamics that characterize capitalism. The aim is not to erase national identities, but to devise forms of political organization in which democratic decisions can be made across borders. Such a conception offers the possibility of rethinking the relationship between equality, the autonomy of peoples and global justice within a broader institutional framework.
