Notes on Rosa Luxemburg's Self-Determination
Nationalism is pervasive
- Every political party in Russia, old or new, is including their position on nationality
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Acknowledges the existence of nationalities? With reference to the Austrian question in particular:
includes various nationalities mixed together territorially in a hodgepodge manner … program of Social Democracy makes provision for a special law to protect the smaller minorities in the newly created national territories
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- The prolongation of these (nationalism) conflicts is one of the methods by which the ruling class insure their domination and prevent measures in the true interests of the people.
the Austrian party, Brünn Congress 1899
From the perspective of Social democracy
- Specific to the Communist Party: for a worker’s party, nationality is a question of both program and class organisation