Panthisatana

       Karl Marx on India and British Rule Dialectical and historical materialist Interpretation  at its bes t    Hindustan is an Italy of Asiatic dimensions, the Himalayas for the Alps, the plains of Bengal for the plains of Lombardy, the Deccan for the Apennines, and the Isle of Ceylon for the Island of Sicily. The same rich variety in the products of the soil, and the same dismemberment in the political configuration. Just as Italy has, from time to time, has been compressed by the conqueror's sword into different national masses, so do we find Hindustan, when not under the pressure of Mohammadan, or the Mogul, or the Britain, dissolved into as many independent and conflicting States as it numbered towns, or even villages. Yet, in a social point of view, Hindustan is not the Italy, but the  Ireland of the East. And this strange combination of Italy and Ireland, of the voluptuousness and of a world of woes, is anticipated in the ancient traditio...

  LENIN , RUSSIA , UKRAINE and   THE RIGHT OF NATIONS TO SECEDE    The elimination of national oppression, if at all achievable in capitalist society, is possible under a  consistently  democratic republican  system and state  administration that guarantee complete equality  for all nations and languages.     The right  of all nations forming part of Russia freely to secede and form independent  states must be recognised. To deny them this right, or to fail to take measures guaranteeing  its practical realisation, is equivalent to supporting a policy of seizure or annexation. Only the recognition by the proletariat  of the right of nations to secede can ensure complete solidarity  among the workers of various nations and help to bring the nations closer together on tryly democratic lines...    The  right of nations freely to secede most not be confused with the advisability of secess...