Re: Quebec nationalism

[Chegitz Guevara <mluziett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Ryan Daum wrote:

> I don't know, Louis.  Luxemburg was a great theorist, but her position of
> the national question is known to be rather ugly.  I.e. she supported the
> continued domination of Poland by Russia and attacked the socialist party
> there for supporting self-determination.  I'd give it a D.

Luxemburg's theories on nationalism were not ugly. They were rooted in a
particular time and place. As a Polish national, she had every right to
tell her compatriots in the SDPkPL (which she helped found) not to fight
for the national question. Lenin, as a Russian national absolutely had to
garuntee the rights of oppressed nations to self-determination.

Luxemburg did not support the continued domination of Poland by Russia.
She felt that it was not in the interests of the Polish working class to
pursue independence, and should work instead for the overthrow of Tsarism.
She attacked the PSP for supporting reactionary bourgeois nationalism.
The PSP later crushed a workers' uprising in Poland, while the SPDkPL
ended up joining with the Bolesheviks.

Marc, "the Chegitz," Luzietti
http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett

        "Behold, they are as one people, and they all have one language;
and this is only the begining of what they will do; and nothing that they
propose to do will now be impossible for them." -- GOD, on solidarity



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