Stalin on Communists Needing to Combat Harmful National Institutions

Stalin on Communists Needing to Combat Harmful National Institutions

“Nations have a right to arrange their affairs as they please; they have a right to preserve any of their national institutions, whether beneficial or harmful – nobody can (nobody has a right to!) forcibly interfere in the life of a nation. But that does not mean that Social-Democracy will not combat and agitate against the harmful institutions of nations and against the inexpedient demands of nations.” 

Joseph Stalin, Marxism and the National Question