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human
ELI5: the term 'Bourgeois Nationalism'

'Bourgeois Nationalism'. The Wikipedia entry is very baffling...I can't tell what it is or whether Soviet Union was against it or for it.
gpt
The first line in the Wiki is perfectly put: 

>In Marxism, bourgeois nationalism is the practice by the ruling classes of deliberately dividing people by nationality, race, ethnicity, or religion, so as to distract them from initiating class warfare.   

Think of the bourgeoisie as the richest people in a society which has a huge wealth gap, where most of the country is very poor and a select few have access to the majority of the wealth (bankers, politicians, industrialists, etc.) 

Everyone else is pretty much the "working class", and if enough of the working class are poor, they might start to notice and get upset, and might consider protesting and rioting, or maybe overthrowing those bourgeoisie guys with all that money...

The bourgeoisie guys understand that this could be a problem, so they go to their other bourgeoisie friends who control the newspapers, the radio, TV, etc. and get them to start controversies and debates that will divide the working class people on issues other than wealth inequality. So now, the working class people are fragmented on issues such as religion, ethnicity, gender, etc.  

It all just comes down to dividing up the majority of your citizens to make it less likely that they can band together and overthrow you and your rich cronies, basically.   

The Soviet Union in principle was against "bourgeois nationalism", but in practice emulated it routinely via corruption.