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  1. Rafiq
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    The notion of an oppressed nation entails the oppression of an entire body which encompasses numerous different classes. Nations might have a history, perhaps even a spirit: But not a collective homogeneous will. The victor class inherits the legacy of the according nations: That does not mean different nations can oppress others. Even Lenin noted that if a country "oppresses another" it cannot be free itself. Oppression itself is vague: it can mean many different things.
  2. Rafiq
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    Nationalism can only exist with a necessary context. Historically, most notably in Russia, the Communists were successful in exposing to the masses the real paradigm of struggle - between classes. It is a matter of the relationships between ideology and the real battlefield of struggle. Our cause is legitimate when we are willing to fight - to die for it. the Communists were not as prominent as the nationalists - but they were still a very sizable and real force.
  3. The Intransigent Faction
    I JUST saw that article before signing in here...I think I'm gonna be sick. -___-
  4. Rafiq
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    But the situation in the Middle East is not so different. Former Communist parties which had previously attracted impressive portions of the population, which had a real ideological upper hand now pander to either Islamists or Liberals - because these things are alive while the old left is dead. Bastardizations and mutations of all stripes of revolutionary theory have been made globally to adapt to these concessions and changes.
  5. Rafiq
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    Thank you, though it is not through creativity or intelligence that I make my posts - Marxism is all of our shared legacy, it is the common means by which we understand the world around us - one need only take it. The situation in Canada is quite different from Algeria, despite the common feature of ethnic separatism. I would say that in a place like Canada, so weakened is the Left that it's own definitive politics is rendered illegitimate even in their eyes by the overwhelming power of capitalist mysticism. We know longer possess our own distinct language and claim to universal truth, but capitalism has left intact phenomena like nationalism (including anti-imperialism), anti-semitism among other things. The old Left, in it's last desperate attempt to preserve itself, thus takes advantage of the ideological legitimacy of nationalism and throws to the fires real revolutionary politics.
  6. The Intransigent Faction
    Haha, no. I'm from Ontario.
    I have, however, visited both Montreal and Quebec City and follow their politics occasionally. I've even been to the Maison de Norman Bethune.
  7. Brutus
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    I'll have tankies at my door
  8. Brutus
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    Hehe. It's good to know. NKVD would swoop down on you like a hawk on a mouse...
    Cults of personality are overrated.
  9. Brutus
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    A tad obsessed with dzerzhinsky comrade?
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