The National Question

 

 

The Marxist Approach to the Struggle of the Oppressed People

 

By Yossi Schwartz, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, August 2019, www.thecommunists.net

 

 

The Pamphlet can be downloaded here

 

 

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Contents

 

 

 

 

 

Part I

 

 

 

Introduction

 

 

1. The Change of the Weight of the Struggle in the Semi-colonies

 

 

2. What is a Nation?

 

 

3. Ancient Nations

 

 

 

 

 

Part II

 

 

 

4. What It Means to Unconditionally Support the Oppressed Nation

 

 

5. The Position of the Second International as Social-Imperialist and the National Question

 

 

6. Lenin’s Evolution of Thinking on the National Question

 

 

 

 

 

Part III

 

 

 

7. The Third International and the National Question

 

 

8. Stalinism and the National Question

 

 

9. Trotsky and the Fourth International on the National Question

 

 

10. The Fourth International on the National Question after Trotsky

 

 

 

 

 

Part IV

 

 

 

11. On Self-Determination of Oppressed Nations

 

 

12. The National Question in Russia

 

 

13. The National Question in China

 

 

14. The National Question in Europe Today

 

 

 

 

 

Part V

 

 

 

15. Settler Colonialism

 

 

16. Conclusion

 

 

References