Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red by Stephen Velychenko

Author:Stephen Velychenko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

The UCP set out its position as follows in 1924: “The Ukrainian communist party is the party of the oppressed and colonized Ukrainian proletariat, called forth by life and social evolution to solve the colonial problem in the conditions that exist in Ukraine.” This could only be done via the CI, and whoever opposed this opposed the CI.73

Ukrainian communists characterized Moscow’s local agents as men who saw Ukraine from Moscow’s point of view and who judged it from the perspective of the Russian Revolution instead of world revolution. Economic ties did not require political union; in any case, the war and revolution had destroyed those ties and it made no sense to try to use them to rejoin “old state formations.”74 Developing these ideas in a letter to Manuilsky in February 1920, Mazurenko explained that communists had to use nationalism in the interests of revolution just as they used the state – otherwise their enemies would exploit it. Mazurenko here anticipated Lenin’s idea expressed five months later at the Second Comintern Conference:

For us communists from colonies the paths and means required on a given territory [to rebuild] are more visible and obvious than they are for those who worked and work in the metropole. What is now happening in Russia will also happen in England, the Balkans, Asia and elsewhere; Ukraine, Ireland, India, Macedonia, and on and on. Revolution there will have the nature of national economic liberation and the national movement there will be a revolutionary factor, if the party of the revolutionary proletariat can take it in hand and use it as it should be used.

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