Nationalism, a phenomenon that has played a marked role throughout the entire Labor History, has always functioned as a means of stratification within the ranks of labor. It is, in that vein, the argument of this work that the Marxist imperfection in the face of rising national currents in the first half of the nineteenth century came into being owing to two primary shortcomings. First, the practical issues pertaining to the position of the national working classes within the world division of labor giving rise to what has been coined as the 'aristocracy of labor'; and, second, the conventional misconception that portrays Marxism as responsible for the cursory manner in which anti-colonial movements were analyzed and incorporated into the M...