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“The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such “desperate” democrats and “socialists,” “revolutionaries” and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its result was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism. For the same reasons, the struggle that the Egyptian merchants and bourgeois intellectuals are waging for the independence of Egypt is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the bourgeois origin and bourgeois title of the leaders of the Egyptian national movement, despite the fact that they are opposed to socialism; whereas the struggle that the British “Labour” government is waging to preserve Egypt’s dependent position is for the same reasons a reactionary struggle, despite the proletarian origin and the proletarian title of the members of that government, despite the fact that they are “for” socialism. There is no need to mention the national movement in other, larger, colonial and dependent countries, such as India and China, every step of which along the road to liberation, even if it runs counter to the demands of formal democracy, is a steam-hammer blow at imperialism, i.e., is undoubtedly a revolutionary step.” – Joseph Stalin, Foundations of Leninism
Beginning and Essential readings
- The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination by V. I. Lenin
- Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions by V. I. Lenin
- The National Question by J. V. Stalin
- Anti-Imperialist Viewpoint by José Carlos Mariátegui
Supplemental readings
- The Right of Nations to Self-Determination by V. I. Lenin
- Marxism and the National Question by J. V. Stalin
- The National Question and Leninism by J.V. Stalin
- The Soviet Union and National Liberation by M. J. Olgin
- The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party by Mao Zedong
- Apologists Of Neo-Colonialism by Mao Zedong
- Internationalism and Nationalism by Liu Shaoqi
- China’s Ethnic Policy and Common Prosperity and Development of All Ethnic Groups by the CP of China
- Report On The National And Colonial Questions by Ho Chi Minh
- The Path Which Led Me to Leninism by Ho Chi Minh
- Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams by Ernesto Che Guevara
- The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon
- The Mechanisms of Neo-Colonialism by Kwame Nkrumah
- Breznjev and the National Democratic Revolution by Ludo Martens
- Lenin and Stalin on the Relationship of Democratic and Socialist Revolutions in Colonial and Semicolonial Countries by Jose Maria Sison
- The Movement Against War in Iraq: A New Period and Our Tasks by FRSO
