Lenin and even Stalin wrote much more extensively about the role of nationalism in revolution than did Marx, who, uh, had some hot takes on the nationalism of pre-WW1 south slavic countries and on imperialism in general.
Stalin defined a nation as "a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture," a definition that I'm sure a lot of modern anthropologists would denounce as overly-simplistic. But he, like Lenin and Mao and Sankara, wasn't writing from a perspective of pure scholarly inquiry, but with the intent to create a just-so definition that was workable in the context of opposing imperialism.
The contradiction of course being that even left-wing revolutionary nationalism must eventually give way to internationalism to fully realize a communist project. We're clearly not there yet.
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Lenin and even Stalin wrote much more extensively about the role of nationalism in revolution than did Marx, who, uh, had some hot takes on the nationalism of pre-WW1 south slavic countries and on imperialism in general.
Stalin defined a nation as "a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture," a definition that I'm sure a lot of modern anthropologists would denounce as overly-simplistic. But he, like Lenin and Mao and Sankara, wasn't writing from a perspective of pure scholarly inquiry, but with the intent to create a just-so definition that was workable in the context of opposing imperialism.
The contradiction of course being that even left-wing revolutionary nationalism must eventually give way to internationalism to fully realize a communist project. We're clearly not there yet.
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