This Soviet World reading group — Week 5, Aug 17–23: Chapter 5: “The Union of Nations.”
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The discussion we had last time about the uhh..."outdated" language is on full display here. Still, you can tell she means well and I love how she makes sure to emphasise just how much all of the different cultures and nations of the Soviet union were able to help each other, not just with help from the "Russians" but by all of them coming together to build a better future.
I found this quote interesting though:
If we should claim that the Jews are a chosen people, the best and brainiest in the world, that’s nationalism. It’s dangerous nonsense, the kind of murderous nonsense that leads Turks to attack Armenians or white Americans to lynch Negroes. The assertion of the right of one culture to dominate another, or even to pre-eminence—that is the capitalist wish to exploit, and it leads to war. We have no right to exploit or to claim pre-eminence; but we have the same rights as others to develop our own characteristic culture in peace.
At this time Western Europe was trying to settle Jewish colonists in the middle east, if I remember correctly, so a lot of Jewish people globally could probably see that same sort of fascist nationalism developing within their own societies.
It really is sad how little things have ultimately actively changed in the world from almost a century ago. When she talks about the claims of the fascists, those sections could literally be written today, capital hasn't changed in the slightest.