The article analyzes the contemporary manifestations of the political struggle for the acquisition of Scottish national independence. Attempting to reveal the specifics of the modern Scottish «nationalism», the authors conclude that the success of the political opposition to the British bourgeois neo-liberal etatism is largely dependent on the social and democratic and egalitarian orientation of the Scottish national idea.
Scotland, political processes, nationalism, social democracy, egalitarianism, labourism, imperialism, conservatism, neoliberalism, national self-determination, ethnicity
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