We’re starting off with a very short one for the first week. This text was published in 1915, two years before the October revolution, and is sadly still highly relevant in the imperial core.
This reading group is meant to educate, and people from any instances federated with Lemmygrad are welcome. Any comments not engaging in good faith will be removed (don’t respond to hostile comments, just report them).
You can post questions or share your thoughts at any time. We’ll be moving on to a new text next week, but this thread won’t be locked.
You can read the text here.
Just to note that Palestine is different because Palestinians are not waging an imperialist war but an anti-colonial war. This text doesn’t apply to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and Palestinian communists are correct in supporting their government even if it is not progressive or communist:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm
Thanks for providing the distinction!