File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-25.232, message 93


Date:         Tue, 25 Mar 97 09:32:37 EST
From: Walter Daum <WGDCC-AT-CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: M-I: National and class: the classic formulations


On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 07:33:47 -0500 (EST) Louis N Proyect said:
>On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Chris Burford wrote:
>
>>
>> Lenin's late contributions on the world historical role
>> of the national struggles of the oppressed peoples and
>> nations is one of the strategic turning points
>> about which there are usually differences with people
>> coming from a Trotskyist tradition.
>>
>
>Louis: People coming from a "Trotskyist" tradition covers a lot of
>territory. Trotsky supported Catalan self-determination during the Spanish
>Civil War, while the Popular Front goverment was trying to suppress it. It
>is true that somebody like Walter Daum or Sean Mage would veer more in the
>Rosa Luxemburg direction, but they are too busy discussing whether the
>USSR turned capitalist in 1939 or before or after to get into this sort of
>

Where does this come from? There's much to admire in Luxemburg's work,
but the Trotskyist tradition that I belong to has sided with Lenin
against her on the national question.

Once again Louis can't resist stamping on theoretical debate. In doing
so he steps on his own foot -- for the Lenin - Luxemburg
debate of the 1910's in vital for illuminating today's issues, just
as is discussing the theory of Stalinism and its (very recent) collapse.

Walter Daum


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