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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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