The Right of Nations to Self Determination

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Roderick Hay <rhay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 21:39:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: War poised to expand

I don't understand this "right of nations to self-determination". What is
a nation but a bourgeois reification. The workers have no nation.



Chris B:
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There is hardly a more important question to clarify if we want to
promote unity between working people against capital, in an increasingly
chaotic world.

For the people of the former Yugoslavia perhaps too, we can at least
try to understand what went wrong

Please do not mistake this as personal, Roderick, because I do not know
you at all, but in order to ensure that this theoretical bomb explodes,
allow me to insult you by saying the comment above might be marxian,
but, in the twentieth century, it is no way dialectical or materialist.



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