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ras oo ean be but must be, Tho specific contont of |. - 7 os - with theSoviots: statos “tho > mattor " precisoly: © solos tn tho national quostdon thoworld outlook of ths ee ** prolctarian party is intornationalism and not . wt . petionalasn, In the revolutionary struggle it = - supports rorrossive nati onalism and ovnposes ro= yy + re ae . ppor US prog Brossiy were " r aloes )). saetionary nationalism, It must always draw a , cloar lino of domarcation betwoon itsolf and °" — . ; hee te bourgeois nations lism, to which at must 1 hover” oe Web ot ee ca fail captive. We ee Tho oxtonsion of the rovolutionaiy movomont to the host Spproscod nations and ae among tho most oppressed pooples sharponed Marxist thoory on tho neticnal question 4n throo ways, At no timc will."nationalism™ bo troated in tho abstract as a Te motaphysical catogory, (t) It ws ossontial to unito o tho nation , ageinst tho, forejgn Anpordolism. Mao statos: _. Lo v "con a " Comiunist. who. is’ an intordationalist,” at the: . samc time be a patriot? “hb hold that ho not only patriotism is dotorminod by historical conditions,. writs -- 2; . Thoro ds tho "patriotism" of tho Japanoso aggrossors nea oot, and of Hitlor, and thore is our patriotism. Commmists cet! Sys >. wust rosolutely oppose, tho, Yatriotism"™ of the depaneso co Ue - o> apgrossors and of Hitler...Tho victory of China and ee ths dcfoat of tho invading imporjalists will belp tho =~ p00 troop ‘ J : -Pooplo of other countrios. Thus in wars rs of national. . ‘. : atud ott amnntine ontarnstisonaliem 12 . . a iiboraticn, patriotism is Sipe sree . wed Gtalies: addod) _ on _ 2 — rcs (2) ‘Tt was a)so ossontial to” oxpose “tho ‘fake tpatriotisnt and fidso Vetionalion a _2 of tho Yecrinteng and Chang Kai Shok, ‘ho whole point 4s that the strugglo for ~~” - socdalism, representing as it doos tho real intorests. of tho majority, aro the roal.. rodoemors of tho nation and not the misortble handful of onslavors, It 4s diffi+ .* eult for Amorigens te grasp this point boceauso our cxporionco has shown us that oy those whoreiso the banner of "patriotism" are invariably the most reactionary form - + eos andraiso it to at oneo cony tho black pecple their homeland and to mobilizo the country for inporialist advonturos, It is tho impordolist education system. that mystifics the netional qucstion aluays t treating it abstractly, thoroby covor " ing up its clessnaturo and’ scoking to convey tho idea that nationalism and inter. ° nati onalism "run diroctly counter" to one anothor. PL's formulation has its roots ta thaso bourgeois thoorics, (3) Tho third manifcstation of tho national quostion arises in connecticn with the minority nationalitios within China, Fore the fight Ogeinst Han chauvinism (Toh Hans vore tho majority Pooplo). was decisive in winning over the fifiy-cight minority nationalities to now-democracy and thon to socialism, * .- Facod with the Prospock © of total isolation, tho PL loadorship 4s forced - to make ao Se weet. cee % * . cE « putnetpted concossion to > nationalien tocaueo Stis oa within the framowerk of a soricus fi cht seatnst annoriald oars woo Tramoverd Of TL~AL &F2GNnSt imporaats . if not for tho anti- seston. StrRBEto | thore would bono ne roason for tho concossion. . ; "Le 7 +4! woe This is real motaphysicsmongering! Facts staro ono or tha faco but are totally @isrogarded, Instead of recognizing thet support for tho national liboration strugglo is itsolf a matter of principlo, PL reaucos such "support" te that of a principlod conecssion, Like pouting childron tho loaders of the PLP throw 2 bono to reclity. Bat this is a bono with no woat on it vheatsoover., Tt is cesontial that the uernbership cf PL not fell for this sophistic . trap. Onco tho premisos of this Tretskyite Lins urc aecuy tod cho internal straggte . becomes ong ovar tactics and ihe J logic of that strugzio leads to furthor isola- tion, Tho eriterion of truth is social practice. But scesial practice based on a felso thoory sonds ono dosper into tho swamp, Tho intornal pressure to be consis~ tont has led to a repudiation of all neti onal ism and will ultimately dead to 2 ropudiation of Mao... - Do! Soe ees wens we * Ress the PLP Foousos on tingottationst artd Sovict naa” 4 to_! Aigo tha » Motnerose At tho vory viomont yhor- Laird and “Kixxon Launch now y Doxbang radas | and stop ‘ap the aggression in Viotnau and oxposo in deods thoir phonoy ibeace talks" pley, PLP stops: up its attack « on all Phasos of the Pooplos struggio in Vietnam, They