| Summary: | Since lately our national poet Mihai Eminescu is being accused of nationalism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and other real or invented sins, the article analyses the signifi cance of the noun nationalism and other derivations of the noun nation (nationalist); we might conclude that the signifi cance of the noun nationalism in M. Eminescu’ s journalism is in perfect harmony with the meaning of the literary language of that period: “love for his own nation; patriotism”, the poet being aware of the fact that in pluri-ethnical states (the Russian empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire etc.) the nationalism seeks for the majority nation to dominate the cohabiting nations and suggests for those nations to modify their national policy, which should be normally based not on subordination but on coordination relationships. Moreover, the research of the announced problem allows us to combat the opinion of some Bessarabian politicians where the Republic of Moldova would be a pluri-ethnic state, while in modern political science and sociology, a state is considered polyethnic if the native population does not constitute less than 2/3 of the general number of population, whereas in the Republic of Moldova the Romanians / Moldovans represent almost 82% of the total population.
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