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The Right of Nations to Self-Determination is a work by Vladimir Lenin written in February–May 1914. [1] It dealt with the national question in relation to countries such as Norway and Poland. A polemic against Rosa Luxemburg, it was written in the vein of "The Awakening in the East."
The Nationalities Question by Rosa Luxemburg in 1909 [1] Theses on the National Question , writings by Vladimir Lenin in 1913, first published in 1925 [ 2 ] The Problem of Nationalities , Chapter 39 of Leon Trotsky 's History of the Russia Revolution Volume 3: The Triumph of the Soviets [ 3 ]
Other historians paying attention to the question have differed, with Robert H. McNeal concluding that while Lenin "certainly helped form Stalin's ideas on the nationality question before the essay of 1913 was composed" and "probably edited it for republication in 1914," at root "the work remains essentially Stalin's."
In recognising and accepting nationalism among oppressed peoples, Lenin advocated their national right to self-determination and so opposed Russian chauvinism because such ethnocentrism was a cultural obstacle to establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat in every territory of the deposed Russian Empire (1721–1917).
The congress adopted Lenin's proposal to include in the program in addition to a definition of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, the description of industrial capitalism and simple commodity production contained in the old program adopted at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Lenin considered it ...
Lenin deals with the thesis that "the crisis of physics" "has disappeared matter". In this context he speaks of a "physical idealism" and notes (on p. 260): "For the only" property "of matter to whose acknowledgment philosophical materialism is bound is the property of being objective reality, outside of our consciousness."
Lenin was an internationalist and a keen supporter of world revolution, deeming national borders to be an outdated concept and nationalism a distraction from class struggle. [451] He believed that in a socialist society, the world's nations would inevitably merge and result in a single world government . [ 452 ]
Lenin also took issue with Luxemburg's position on the national question. While her view on nationalism was somewhat more accommodating than it had been previously, Lenin was developing the idea of revolutionary nationalism as a force for liberation against imperialist domination.