Good work Richard, thank you for sharing it here. Support Ukraine? – Why and How Life on the Left, Dec. 29, 2022 https://lifeonleft.blogspot.com/2022/12/support-ukraine-why-and-how.html
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 11:28 AM Richard Fidler via groups.io <rfidler= [email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Michael Pröbsting > <https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/107681802> that Lenin’s discussion on > the Serbian national liberation struggle in WWI can provide us with some > useful pointers in developing a revolutionary Marxist approach to Ukraine’s > struggle against Russian aggression, occupation, and annexation. However, > unlike Michael, I do not base my support of Ukraine’s resistance on what he > terms Ukraine’s “semicolonial” character. My reading of Lenin’s analysis in > WWI goes much deeper. In fact, Lenin and most of the Zimmerwald Left > defended the national sovereignty of several European nations subject to > foreign occupation and annexation – including even imperialist Belgium, > occupied by German imperialism. And I think it can be argued that Lenin’s > initial response to Serbia’s resistance to Austo-Hungarian oppression > evolved in the debates among the Zimmerwald Left. In any case, here is what > I published on the national question in WWI, not long ago: Support > Ukraine? – Why and How > <https://lifeonleft.blogspot.com/2022/12/support-ukraine-why-and-how.html>. > I think it stands up well in light of the differences in today’s left > forces over the Russian-Ukraine war. > > Also worth consulting is Hal Draper’s essay: The Myth of Lenin’s > “Revolutionary Defeatism” > <https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1953/defeat/index.htm>. > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31431): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31431 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107689154/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
