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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:36:53 +0100
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: Re: Kosovo


Dave B writes, replying to James H:

>In applying a very dated reading of Lenin on
>the national question you ignore all the developments that followed.
>What about the way Lenin and Trotsky applied the national question in
>the former SU?  Have you forgotten Trotsky on the Ukraine?

I think it's best to assume that no-one knows anything about any of this --
from the independence of Finland in 1917 and the Georgian campaign in
Lenin's last months to the huge questions of the nationalist aspects of
China and Spain.

Give us your take on the Ukrainian events.


Cheers,

Hugh

PS Dave asks James

>And what about Kosovo?

But he won't get an answer, because LM has no understanding of the forces
at work in issues like this (the Basque country, Ireland etc etc), as Dave
so clearly demonstrates. Basically it's the Stalinist Two-Stage utopia at
work. First the bourgeois democratic stage in all its glory, then and only
then the socialist revolution. And when nasty little pockets of pus like
Ireland, the Basque country or Kosova refuse to homogenize and go away, we
tut-tut a bit and say they're all mad or terrorists. And go back to reading
the Telegraph over our toast and marmelade.


-h




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