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What have the working classes to do with Poland?
Engels, Friedrich
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/marx/works/1866/03/24.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1866/03/24.htm Publisher: The Commonwealth Year Published: 1866 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX11015 Engels wrote these articles after controversy developed at the 1865 London conference of the International concerning including a demand for Poland's independence in the upcoming Geneva Congress. In order to substantiate the position of the Central Committee on the "nationalities question," it was necessary to deal with 1) the Proudhonists who contended politics and national liberation movements have nothing to do with the working class, indeed, detracted from real working class issues, and 2) reveal the demagogic essence of the so-called "principle of nationalities" that helped the Bonapartists make use of national movements for their own political ends. Subject Headings |