International Viewpoint Archive

The Fourth International’s English-language review, from 1982

USSR: The Dangers of a Wrong Approach to the National Question

· International Viewpoint No. 159, 20 March 1989 · p 9 · 135 words

All this does not say what would be a better democratic form of links between nationalities and how a class point of view should be combined with national ones within a democratic Soviet federation. A right of veto for the republics over questions concerning them, accompanied by forms of real popular control over "national" representatives would undoubtedly be a means of establishing confidence. (Majority votes can be eminently oppressive when national questions are involved.)

It is up to those directly concerned temselves to decide whether it is useless or not to fight within the Union. But acceptance of unity with dominant nations necessarily involves the latter giving concessions and full recognition of the identibeen do minatedo natonalities that have 9 been dominated. *

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