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    What is SioC?
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    Furthermore, I would argue that the position that Catalans are 'oppressed' is absurd, if 'oppressed' here is supposed to mean anything more than the Spanish government's crack-down on the right to self-determination. How are Catalans oppressed?
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    Catalan nationalism comes thoroughly from a bourgeois background, with the Catalan ruling elites articulating nationalism in order to fade class tensions. For example, in a meeting of top politicians and capitalists reported about on Dec 10, 2014, a Catalan minister openly declared: "How could the country have survived austerity involving over 6000 million euros if not by playing on a nationalist discourse?"

    I do not believe there is any reason to attack the right to Catalan self-determination, but I think that a supposedly revolutionary organization should openly tell the truth to the working class and fight nationalist illusions, by advocating mass indifference. "Neither Catalonia nor Spain!"
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    The separation of Catalonia could furthermore result in the de-unification in the ranks of the working class, something which was already started by Catalan nationalism. If anything, in the face of great nationalist fooling, the truth should be openly told instead of throwing more wood into the fire to fuel these nationalist feelings. The ICL(FI) hopes that the working class nationalist illusions, heated up by intellectual cliques such as the ICL(FI), will reveal to them how "wrong" they are in an elitist fashion, rather than directly state the truth. This is a fundamentally elitist position.
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    I've recently read about the support of the ICL(FI) for Catalan independence, which obviously can only have a real expression through nationalism. While it justified this position by arguing that "[an] independent Catalonia would demonstrate more clearly to the workers there that the Catalan bourgeois and petty-bourgeois nationalists are no fighters for liberation from exploitation and social oppression", is this not tantamount to advocating support for SYRIZA in order that the workers realize that they will never be truly liberated in such a way?

    Furthermore, how is the ICL(FI) so sure that the independence of Catalonia would lower national tensions? Perhaps the separation of Catalonia would intensify national tensions through, for example, involving the birth of Spanish revanchism. Not that people should not support Catalan nationalism from fear of what Spain may do, but rather to point out this flaw in the ICL(FI) strategy.
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    Great posts on the "Solidarity with Rojava" thread. I'm new to all this forum stuff and it wouldn't let me give you a "Thanks" so I thought I'd post here instead.
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    5. How does it relate to Leninism, if at all?

    6. How does it relate to the more libertarian ideologies within socialism such as council communism, if at all?

    Sorry if these are bad questions.
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    Hey I had a few questions about some of the stuff you mentioned in the MRA thread but didn't want to de-rail it any more than I already had.
    1. Lenin based his ideas on Marxism, so what is the distinction between Marxist-Leninism and Leninism? Wouldn't all Leninism have it's roots in Marxism?

    2. I was under the impression that Stalin rejected some of the fundamentals of Marxist thought. If I am not incorrect, then why call Stalinists, MARXIST-Leninists?

    3. You said that Leninists rejected the idea of a statist transition period? Didn't Lenin himself advocate for an authoritarian period that will lead into communism?

    My next questions are not related to anything you said but are related to some of the topics already discussed so I was hoping you could answer them.
    4. What exactly do Trotskyists advocate? I know you guys believe that the USSR was a degenerated worker's state and you guys seem to advocate an international social revolution. what else?
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    i miss ur tomoko avatar
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    just lettin you know you earned yourself a promotion on my "Favorite Good Revleft Poster" ranking board for making an Ultima reference in an argument.
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