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WY 100-18676 "places the right of self- determination as a basic {Pros grammatic point. The iinternationalism' of the reformists is nothing more or less than the nationalism of their own respective imperialist rulers, while the national program of LENIN is an essential vart of internationalism. Any tinternationalism! that denies the right of self-deter- mination to the subject peoples is false, is a mere cover for imperialist chauvinism, "Our approach ig based on proletarian inter- am which nornanigma Fhat thea workers of an om, alLOl) POCOGRNIZES Gila wit WOLD ACS OP Sate 2 es nation best fight against na tional oppression-- Soh oo : phat sven is the road to realize their own freston. It is based on the Marxist provesition that 'no nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.' "Clearly then, those who impute to the Negro e the main resvonsibility for taccepting!' or trejcecting' r teip le of self-determination ignore tis tenet: they their conclusions on the subjective factor, instead ¢ objective and historical conditions of oppression of Too aro people in the Black Belt. "But let us cxamine some of these arguments. Is it true that the Negro people do not want self-dctcrmination, that the Negro people shy away from this coneept with ab- horrence? Definitely not! It is, of course, quite a different matter if we speak of the Negro people as not being fully conscious of this concept in our terms. But to challenge the deccpest ecsircs of the Negro people for frecdom and equality es being other than that of the fullest national self~affirmation is to fail to understand their fundaricntal aspirations! "What do the Negro people abhor? They abhor the continuation of their actual status in the Black Belt-- that of forcible segregation. They abhor Jim Crow from which they suffer in many forms today. They abhor the freedom with