Self-Determination Rights

[Zoroaster]

What's the difference between Lenin and Luxemburg's opinions on right to national self-determination?

[Brotto Rühle]

Lenin: applies across the board to all "oppressed nations".

Luxemburg: applies only on a case by case basis, determined by it's benefits to the international proletariat. Is no "right".

[Zoroaster]

Thanks.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Lenin considered socialist support for national self-determination to be a weapon against nationalism, particularly against the chauvinism of dominant nations. Nonetheless, he did not consider this democratic right to be sacred - during WWI he cautioned that raising slogans about Polish self-determination would mean objectively siding either with the Central Powers or the Entente. And of course, he did not place self-determination higher than the socialist revolution, as his attitude to Georgia and Poland shows.

[Brotto Rühle]

Thanks.
You should just go ahead and read The National Question.
(http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1909/national-question/index.htm)