In themselves these movements were of on great importance the mere presence of Mazzini would have been enough to ensure their total ineffectiveness Symbolically they are of extreme importance as is indicated by the adoption in subsequent nationalist movements of such labels as Young Czechs or Young Turks They mark the distintegration of European revolutionary movement into national segments Doubtless each of these segments had much the same political programme strategy and tactics as the others and even much the same flag- almost invariably a tricolour of some kind Its members saw no contradiction between their own demands and those of other nations and indeed envisaged a brotherhood of all simultaneously liberating themselves On the other hand each now tended to justify.