Enrico Corradini coined the term "proletarian nation" in 1910, as part of an argument for a new type of radical nationalism that would take inspiration from "the fire, the nerve, the decisiveness" of the revolutionary left, but promote war instead of revolution and territorial conquest instead of overthrowing the ruling class.
This established, nationalism must be founded on the truth that Italy is morally and materially a proletarian nationThe newly developed concept, proletarian nation, was advocated in a weekly magazine, La Lupa, which was founded by Paolo Orano in October 1910 and of which Corradini was among the leading contributors.
In one of his last interviews before his death in 1945, Mussolini told journalist Ivanoe Fossani that "we are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats" and that "I am more convinced than ever that the world can not get out of the dilemma: either Rome or Moscow.
[8] Much later, Nazi official and head of the German Labour Front Robert Ley described Germany as a proletarian nation in 1940.
Li Dazhao, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, identified China as a whole as a proletarian nation and the white races as the world ruling class.