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Comrade Marcel
13th July 2006, 13:04
I decided to compile this in response to the thread What's your Opinion of the FLQ? (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=46962)

Although I have compiled study guides (http://individual.utoronto.ca/mrodden/) on this question before, I decided to make one big one here.

On the National Question of the First Nations, Quebec and Kanada

National Question generally:

THE NATIONAL QUESTION by BILL BLAND (http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/marxism/Cl6.html) - Concise reading that gives you a background on the Marxist Historical materialist understanding of what a nation is and how it developes.

Marxism and the National Question by J.V. Stalin (http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MNQ12.html) - A more indepth analysis of above

Article elaborating the above from Communist Party of Britain (http://www.communist-party.org.uk/articles/2003/february/Marxism%20and%20the%20National%20Question%20Today. shtml)

Self-Determination generally:

The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination by V.I. Lenin (http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/SRSD16.html)

The Discussion of Self-Determination Summed Up by V.I Lenin (http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/SD16.html)

On the First Nations, Quebec and Kanada:

Discussion of parasitism and the national question in Canada (http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/countrie...nadanation.html) - Discusses imperialist country worker's in Quebec labour aristocracy/parasitism towards oppressed nations
QUEBECOIS NATIONALISM AGAINST FIRST NATIONS (http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/countries/canada/quebecnationposition.html) - discusses Quebcois (white) chauvinism against First Nations

Nationalism or Socialism? A Look at the Problems in Que'bec (http://www.marxist.com/usa/quebec.html) - Trotskyite view (I think)

CPC Program Ch. 4: The Canadian State; The nations and peoples of Canada and the crisis of democracy (http://www.communist-party.ca/program/program_00.html#four) - Revisionist CP view of the Quebec question (argues that Quebec worker's best interest is not to seperate and instead unite with Kanadian workers)

Alliance M-L: History of a Bi-National State (http://www.allianceML.com/CCS/ALLIANCE6_Canada93.html) - Argues that First Nations don't meet the 5 characteristics of a nation as outlined in Marxism-Leninism, but that Quebec does

PCR-RCP Programme: 5. Against national oppression! Against nationalism and chauvinism! Fight for absolute equality for all nations and languages! (http://www.pcr-rcpcanada.org/en/programme.php#chap5) - Argues against Quebec nationalism, argues Quebec is an imperialist country

Some books off my shelf on the Kanadian question:

Federalism and the French Canadians by Pierre Elliot Trudeau (The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited, 1968). Originally published in French with the title Le Federalisme et la sciete canadienne-francaise by Editions HMH, Ltee, Montreal 1967 - Argues for Federalism (intergrating French-Canadian society, culture and people in to Anglo-Canadian society) and reforms for Quebec.

Quebec in Question by Marcel Rioux - 1971 by James Lewis & Samuel. Originally published as La Question du quebec by Paris: Editions Seghers, 1969 - Argues for sepratism, written by a progressive sociologist and seperatist.

An Option for Quebec by Rene Levesque, McClelland & Stewart. Originally published in French, 1968, by Les Editions de L'Homme, Montreal - Less radical then Rioux. Levesque founded the Parti Quebecois and was Premier of Quebec.

Lenin and Canada (http://marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/canada/buck-tim/lenin-canada/index.htm) by Tim Buck (http://marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/canada/buck-tim/index.htm) - Progress Books, Toronto 1970. Chapter 6 "Lenin and the Character of the Canadian State" (http://marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/canada/buck-tim/lenin-canada/ch06.htm) and chapter 7 "Lenin and Canadian Independence" (http://marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/canada/buck-tim/lenin-canada/ch07.htm).

Capitalism and the National question in Canada, Gary Teeple (editor) - 1972, University of Toronto Press

Comrade Marcel
14th July 2006, 00:41
updated.

RedJacobin
14th July 2006, 02:48
Thanks for this. Having a good understanding of the national-colonial question is so important in North America.

A reading list should be made for the US too, with difference writings on Black, Chicano, First Nations liberation and the relation of various national minorities (Asians, Latinos, and others) to the proletarian movement.

Maybe I'll make a short list later if I get some time.

Comrade Marcel
14th July 2006, 21:41
Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 11:49 PM
Thanks for this. Having a good understanding of the national-colonial question is so important in North America.

A reading list should be made for the US too, with difference writings on Black, Chicano, First Nations liberation and the relation of various national minorities (Asians, Latinos, and others) to the proletarian movement.

Maybe I'll make a short list later if I get some time.
If I remember correctly, MIM still argues for a Black nation in the U$ and I think they hint towards a Hispanic one as well. Stalin at one time said a Black nation is possible, which may be why they hold that position.

The Alliance M-L has a lengthy article on the Black nation theory which argues it's no longer possible and that any Marxist-Leninist that holds the idea is "revisionist".

I can dig up the url's if you want...