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International Socialist Review Issue 13, August-September 2000
Marxism and Nationalism
By Tom Lewis
Marxism and Nationalism (2)
By Tom Lewis
Combat all national oppression? Yes, of course! Fight for any kind of national development, for "national culture" in general? Of course not!
--V. I. Lenin, "Critical Remarks on the National Question"
Lenin's idea that the notion of self-determination expresses a political right, as opposed to an economic or cultural right, led him into heated debates. Again and again, beginning with the 1903 Congress and continuing throughout the last year of his life, Lenin found himself insisting that "the article of our program on the self-determination of nations cannot be interpreted to mean anything but political self-determination, i.e., the right to secede and form a separate state."42›Lenin's definition continued to be opposed from two different directions. From one side, Otto Bauer and the Austro-Marxists advocated a cultural interpretation of the right to self-determination. On the other, Rosa Luxemburg and the Polish Marxists argued that capitalist economic development had eliminated the very possibility of self-determination.
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Lenin harshly denounced Bauer's plan for redressing national inequalities as a contradictory and dangerous attempt to fight nationalism with nationalism. "'Cultural-national autonomy,'" Lenin asserted, "implies precisely the most refined and, therefore, the most harmful nationalism."45
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When the right of nations to self-determination shifts from the political realm to the cultural realm, oppressed nations are abandoned to the influence of an "aggressive bourgeois nationalism, which drugs the minds of workers, stultifies and disunites them in order that the bourgeoisie may lead them around by the halter."50 That is why Lenin stated repeatedly that socialists "take from each national culture only its democratic and socialist elements; we take them only and absolutely in opposition to the bourgeois culture and the bourgeois nationalism of each nation."51
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