Why are so many communists opposed to state's rights to national self-administration? Isn't it the job of the local working class to sort out their own contradictions? This just seems like rainbow imperialism. I think an orthodox ML approach woul

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Anonymous 08-04-26 00:03:32 No.2772400

Why are so many communists opposed to state's rights to national self-administration? Isn't it the job of the local working class to sort out their own contradictions? This just seems like rainbow imperialism. I think an orthodox ML approach would recognize the conversion of many red states to internal colonies and their right to secession. Does not the brain drain of workers from red/rural states to blue/urban states mirror migrant labor from the imperial periphery? In the town-country contradiction, we should support the country.

Anonymous 08-04-26 00:11:18 No.2772445

Because States Rights aren't real. In the US they only exist when the goal is to defend or further reactionary politics and hinder progressive ones. Whenever thr most reactionary elements of American electoral politics they don't give a crap about states rights and federally enforce whatever.

Anonymous 08-04-26 00:18:03 No.2772488

>>2772445
> In the US they only exist when the goal is to defend or further reactionary politics and hinder progressive ones.
Isn't this just rainbow imperialism?

> In Brazil there now reigns a semifascist regime that every revolutionary can only view with hatred. Let us assume, however, that on the morrow England enters into a military conflict with Brazil. I ask you on whose side of the conflict will the working class be? I will answer for myself personally—in this case I will be on the side of “fascist” Brazil against “democratic” Great Britain. Why? Because in the conflict between them it will not be a question of democracy or fascism. If England should be victorious, she will put another fascist in Rio de Janeiro and will place double chains on Brazil. If Brazil on the contrary should be victorious, it will give a mighty impulse to national and democratic consciousness of the country and will lead to the overthrow of the Vargas dictatorship.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/09/liberation.htm

Anonymous 08-04-26 01:28:06 No.2772798

>>2772488
>Isn't this just rainbow imperialism?
Were the northern states practicing imperialism on the confederacy during the US Civil War?

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