> On Jan 14, 2025, at 5:06 PM, sartesian via groups.io
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So what is the social base for your designation of a battle for
> self-determination? The fact that Russia is bigger? Russia invaded?
> You advance this "right" as an abstraction, without any social content. So
> when the current ruling class advocates as "self-determination" its intention
> to join the EU and NATO are they exercising their "right" as a ruling class?
> Maybe, based on some understanding of the demands of accumulation, the cause
> of the war is the similarity -- the equality in modes of production, and this
> is one more example where substituting abstract rights for concrete analysis
> actually works to preserve the causes of the war, empower the destruction of
> the prospects for an independent class-based opposition to the ruling classes
> of Russia, Ukraine and the NATO countries.
Is solidarity an abstraction? Every Ukrainian who has posted to this list,
socialist and trade unionist, has explained that the Ukrainian working class
will be much worse off under Russian domination from a successful invasion.
I have been waiting for your analysis of how the concepts of "permanent
revolution" and "the right of nations to self determination" are inextricably
linked to "uneven and combined development" - apart from quoting Marx on the
relationship of productive forces to relations of production in a mode of
production. Talk about abstractions.
Mark
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