NATIONAL SOLIDARISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO MODERNITY

Abstract

The article provides a comprehensive political-science and worldvieworiented analysis of national solidarism as a socio-political doctrine aimed at overcoming internal social and political divisions within the nation-state. The purpose of the study is to conceptualize national solidarism as an alternative both to the class-conflict logic of Marxism and to the atomized individualism of the liberal tradition, as well as to determine its theoretical and practical significance for contemporary Ukraine.
The study analyzes the intellectual origins of the solidarist paradigm, including sociological solidarism, the French solidarist doctrine of Léon Bourgeois, Christian social thought, and concepts of organic nationalism. It is demonstrated that national solidarism is grounded in the understanding of the nation as an organic political whole, within which social groups interact not through antagonism but through solidaristic coordination of interests subordinated to the common national good.
Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the main historical schools and models of national solidarism, including the French, Italian corporatist, German-Austrian universalist, and Ukrainian traditions. The fundamental distinction between classical solidarism and its authoritarian deformations of the interwar period — arising from the substitution of solidarity by state coercion- is substantiated.
The article examines Ukrainian classical solidarism as developed in the works of Viacheslav Lypynskyi, Mykola Stsiborskyi, and within the ideological discourse of the interwar national-state movement. Its distinctly state-building character, shaped by conditions of statelessness and social fragmentation, is identified. It is argued that under contemporary conditions of war and societal mobilization, solidarism can be reinterpreted as a normative framework for social cohesion, civic responsibility, and national resilience compatible with a democratic political order.