• GravenImage [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    the role of socialists is to summon movements for national liberation out of the ether?

    Historical materialists can uncover the alienation which already exists.

    Must have something to do with the left rejecting identity politics

    read the thread again

    • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Historical materialists can uncover the alienation which already exists.

      Historical materialists can explain the alienation that already exists, and tie it back to class struggle through concrete perspectives. That's the goal of the Marxist approach to the national question. It's not to be the impetus for national liberation movements that the people of said nation are not themselves aware of or undertaking.

      read the thread again

      No, I don't think I will.