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
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