Thesis on the Liberation of Nations

[deSouza]

A group of revolutionary nationalist leaders has been put together, analyzed the world situation and reached a few conclusions.

We prefer the word “revolutionary” to that of “patriot”, because although in a given historical epoch patriots possess a revolutionary significance, this does not hold true of them at all times and under every circumstance. For example: Mussolini, Poincaré, the American Ku Klux Klan, the Manchurian bandit Chang Tsu Lin, Amir Amanulla of Afghanisthan, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Srinivasa Sastri, Sir Surendra Nath Bannerji, Gandhi, Barin Ghose are all patriots; but imagine what a gulf divides these men one from the other, and what divergent ideals each of them represents! “Patriotism”, therefore, is a very misleading term, which often possesses a very sinister significance. A movement which is based only on patriotism cannot go very far in these days. Pure patriotism smacks of reaction, and what we have here is revolution that will make nations equals.




An abstract or formal posing of the problem of equality in general and national equality in particular is in the very nature of bourgeois democracy. Under the guise of the equality of the individual in general, bourgeois democracy proclaims the formal or legal equality of the property-owner and the proletarian, the exploiter and the exploited, thereby grossly deceiving the oppressed classes. On the plea that all men are absolutely equal, the bourgeoisie is transforming the idea of equality, which is itself a reflection of relations in commodity production, into a weapon in its struggle against the abolition of classes. The real meaning of the demand for equality consists in its being a demand for the abolition of classes.

In conformity with its fundamental task of combating bourgeois democracy and exposing its falseness and hypocrisy, the historical task of the vanguard of the proletariat, champion of the struggle to overthrow the bourgeois yoke, must base its policy, in the national question too, not on abstract and formal principles but, first, on a precise appraisal of the specific historical situation and, primarily, of economic conditions; second, on a clear distinction between the interests of the oppressed classes, of working and exploited people, and the general concept of national interests as a whole, which implies the interests of the ruling class; third, on an equally clear distinction between the oppressed, dependent and subject nations and the oppressing, exploiting and sovereign nations, in order to counter the bourgeois-democratic lies that play down this colonial and financial enslavement of the vast majority of the world’s population by an insignificant minority of the richest and advanced capitalist countries, a feature characteristic of the era of finance capital and imperialism.

Imperialist wars all over the history of planet bob have very clearly revealed to all nations and to the oppressed classes of the whole world the falseness of bourgeois-democratic phrases, by practically demonstrating that democracies do wage war against each other and that the war reparations of celebrated "democratic alliances" are an even more brutal and foul act of violence against war-fit nations than the wars imposed on them by an aggressive party.
The political establishment on planet bob ant its entire policy recently reveal this truth with even greater clarity and distinctictness. They are everywhere intensifying the revolutionary struggle both of the proletariat in the advanced countries and of the toiling masses in the dependent countries. They are hastening the collapse of the petty-bourgeois nationalist illusions that nations can live together in peace and equality under capitalism.

From these fundamental premises it follows that the vanguard’s entire policy on the national question should rest primarily on a closer union of the proletarians and the working masses of all nations and countries for a joint revolutionary struggle to overthrow the landowners and the bourgeoisie. This union alone will guarantee victory over capitalism, without which the abolition of national oppression and inequality is impossible.

One cannot at present confine oneself to a bare recognition or proclamation of the need for closer union between the working people of the various nations; remaining unaligned would necessarily mean the destruction of any nation by imperialist parties, a policy must be pursued that will achieve the closest alliance, with the National Liberation Front, of all the national and colonial liberation movements.
The form of this alliance should be determined by the degree of development of the communist movement in the proletariat of each country, or of the bourgeois-democratic liberation movement of the workers and peasants in backward countries or among backward nationalities.

Federation is a transitional form to complete unity of the working people of different nations, it is necessary to strive for ever closer federal unity, bearing in mind, first, that the republics in the National Liberation Front, surrounded as they are by the imperialist powers of the whole world—which from the military standpoint are immeasurably stronger—cannot possibly continue to exist without the closest alliance; second, that a close economic alliance between the republics is necessary, otherwise true national development and the construction of productive forces cannot be reached and the
well-being of the working people cannot be ensured; third, that there is a tendency towards the creation of a single world economy, regulated by the proletariat of all nations as an integral whole and according to a common plan. This tendency has already revealed itself quite clearly under capitalism and is bound to be further developed and consummated under socialism.

The National Liberation Front's national policy in the sphere of relations within the state cannot be restricted to the bare, formal, purely declaratory and actually non-committal recognition of the equality of nations to which the bourgeois democrats confine themselves—both those who frankly admit being such, and those who assume the name of socialists (such as the socialists of the Second International).

In all their propaganda and agitation—both within parliament and outside it—real Communists must consistently expose that constant violation of the equality of nations and of the guaranteed rights of national minorities which is to be seen in all capitalist countries, despite their “democratic” constitutions. It is also necessary, first, constantly to explain that only the NLF system is capable of ensuring genuine equality of-nations, by uniting first the proletarians and then the whole mass of the working population in the struggle against the bourgeoisie; and, second, that all communists should render direct aid to the revolutionary movements among the sphere of planet bob.

Without the latter condition, which is particularly important, the struggle against the oppression of dependent nations and alliances, as well as recognition of their right to secede, are but a false signboard, as is evidenced by the parties of the Second International.

Recognition of internationalism in word, and its replacement in deed by petty-bourgeois nationalism and pacifism, in all propaganda, agitation and practical work, is very common, not only among the parties of the Second International, but also among those which have withdrawn from it, and often even among parties which now call themselves communist. The urgency of the struggle against this evil, against the most deep-rooted petty-bourgeois national prejudices, looms ever larger with the mounting exigency of the task of converting the dictatorship of the proletariat from a national dictatorship
(i.e., existing in a single country and incapable of determining world politics) into an international one (i.e., a dictatorship of the proletariat involving at least several advanced countries, and capable of exercising a decisive influence upon world politics as a whole). Petty-bourgeois nationalism proclaims as internationalism the mere recognition of the equality of nations, and nothing more. Quite apart from the fact that this recognition is purely verbal, petty-bourgeois nationalism preserves national self-interest intact, whereas proletarian internationalism demands, first, that the interests of the proletarian struggle in any one country should be subordinated to the interests of that struggle on a world-wide scale, and, second, that a nation which is achieving victory over the bourgeoisie should be able and willing to make the greatest national sacrifices for the overthrow of international capital.

With regard to the more backward states and nations, in which feudal or patriarchal and patriarchal-peasant relations predominate, it is particularly important to bear in mind that there is a need for a determined struggle against attempts to give a communist colouring to bourgeois-democratic liberation trends in the backward countries; the National Liberation Front should support bourgeois-democratic national movements in backward countries only on condition that, in these countries, the elements of future proletarian parties, which will be communist not only in name, are brought together and trained to understand their special tasks, i.e., those of the struggle against the bourgeois-democratic movements within their own nations. The NLFl must enter into a temporary alliance with bourgeois democracy in the backward countries, but should not merge with it, and should under all circumstances uphold the independence of the proletarian movement even if it is in its most embryonic form. There is also a need to constantly explain and expose among the broadest working masses of all countries, and particularly of the backward countries, the deception systematically practised by the imperialist powers, which, under the guise of politically independent states, set up states that are wholly dependent upon them economically, financially and militarily. Under present-day international conditions there is no salvation for dependent and weak nations except in a federal state: National Liberation Front.


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[b]The national Liberation Front is a state and a movement, built on the principles of national self determination, anti-imperialism and righteous warfare. All its members have a discipline based on political consciousness; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole world. The sole purpose of this alliance is to stand firmly with the people of digiterra and to serve them whole-heartedly.[/b]


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Nations of the cyberverse, unite! Meet us at #nlf at the coldfront irc network.

[BONES]

Good job.Hail,Liberation of Nations

[sethb]

Good luck DeSouza.

[tamerlane]

Oh look! All the drivel we have come to expect from deSouza formed into an alliance. I think the thing that disturbed me most about this post was the lack of a bibliography.

[deSouza]

[quote name='tamerlane' date='09 March 2010 - 03:56 AM' timestamp='1268114450' post='2218943']
Oh look! All the drivel we have come to expect from deSouza formed into an alliance. I think the thing that disturbed me most about this post was the lack of a bibliography.
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There was one implied.

[tamerlane]

[quote name='deSouza' date='09 March 2010 - 05:57 AM' timestamp='1268114554' post='2218948']
There was one implied.
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an implied bibliography you say?

[Merrie Melodies]

Any treaties? A Protector?

[deSouza]

[quote name='tamerlane' date='09 March 2010 - 03:59 AM' timestamp='1268114635' post='2218951']
an implied bibliography you say?
[/quote]

Yes.

[quote name='Merrie Melodies' date='09 March 2010 - 04:02 AM' timestamp='1268114839' post='2218963']
Any treaties? A Protector?
[/quote]

Yes, we have signed treaties.

[Merrie Melodies]

Good deal, good luck.

[Bordiga]

Good luck DeSouza, as painful a read as that was.

[Baldr]

From your constitution :

"We will not use of nuclear first strikes, but we will retaliate cruise missiles, ground assaults and navy blockades with nuclear attacks."

So you won't use nuclear first strikes, unless they have used an ground attack, a CM, or a naval blockade on you, in which case, nukes are OK regardless of whether they've nuked you? That sounds like "We'll nuke you at will if we're at war" to me. The only option left that doesn't lead to nukes are air attacks.

Regardless, good luck.

[Il Impero Romano]

While personally I enjoy exploiting plebeians on a regular basis, I'll wish you good luck home slice.

[Goldie]

GL with everything, we'll be right there with you along the way.

[deSouza]

[quote name='Baldr' date='09 March 2010 - 04:20 AM' timestamp='1268115886' post='2219002']
From your constitution :

"We will not use of nuclear first strikes, but we will retaliate cruise missiles, ground assaults and navy blockades with nuclear attacks."

So you won't use nuclear first strikes, unless they have used an ground attack, a CM, or a naval blockade on you, in which case, nukes are OK regardless of whether they've nuked you? That sounds like "We'll nuke you at will if we're at war" to me. The only option left that doesn't lead to nukes are air attacks.

Regardless, good luck.
[/quote]

Pretty much, yes, and we also react with nukes concerning air attacks. That was a mistake that is now corrected.

Thanks.

[quote name='sethb' date='09 March 2010 - 03:53 AM' timestamp='1268114297' post='2218938']
Good luck DeSouza.
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Thanks.


[quote name='Bordiga' date='09 March 2010 - 04:09 AM' timestamp='1268115274' post='2218982']
Good luck DeSouza, as painful a read as that was.
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Thanks.

[quote name='Merrie Melodies' date='09 March 2010 - 04:07 AM' timestamp='1268115145' post='2218975']
Good deal, good luck.
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Thanks.

[quote name='Il Impero Romano' date='09 March 2010 - 04:21 AM' timestamp='1268115970' post='2219006']
While personally I enjoy exploiting plebeians on a regular basis, I'll wish you good luck home slice.
[/quote]

Thanks.

[quote name='goldielax25' date='09 March 2010 - 04:23 AM' timestamp='1268116099' post='2219009']
GL with everything, we'll be right there with you along the way.
[/quote]

Thanks. Appreciated.

[Fadeev]

Good job Souz, great announcement!

o/ NLF

[Poyplemonkeys]

So you do nuclear first strike seeing how you're open to nuking people before they nuke you.

[DarkEra97]

Good luck deSouza.

[General Aron Vaas]

Hail!
Pacis Quod Prosperitas Ut Utriusque Nostrum!

[Ashoka the Great]

[quote name='deSouza' date='09 March 2010 - 12:47 AM' timestamp='1268113938' post='2218921']
Mussolini, Poincaré, the American Ku Klux Klan, the Manchurian bandit Chang Tsu Lin, Amir Amanulla of Afghanisthan, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Srinivasa Sastri, Sir Surendra Nath Bannerji, Gandhi, Barin Ghose[/quote]

I do not recognize any of these names, although I find it interesting that there are apparently five rulers with the name 'Mussolini'. Which one are you referring to?

[Baldr]

[quote name='deSouza' date='09 March 2010 - 12:29 AM' timestamp='1268116451' post='2219020']
Pretty much, yes, and we also react with nukes concerning air attacks. That was a mistake that is now corrected.
[/quote]

I guess it's some sort of humor.

You're saying you won't do a nuclear first strike, unless you're at war.

[Baldr]

[quote name='Ashoka the Great' date='09 March 2010 - 08:12 AM' timestamp='1268144210' post='2219246']
I do not recognize any of these names, although I find it interesting that there are apparently five rulers with the name 'Mussolini'. Which one are you referring to?
[/quote]

You don't recognize any of those names? None of them? Wow.

[Reagan1]

This makes my head hurt. Still, good luck with it.

[kpcurley]

Longest DoE award! I would be lying if i said i read it all but I still wanted to congratulate you.

[Eden Taylor]

This could be cool; good luck.

[saxasm]

I'd be lying if I said I read through all that incoherent drivel, but congratulations on your alliance anyway.


[i]I read that entire thing and I hope you succeed.[/i]