TBH, nationalism in colonized countries can easily and quickly become just as harmful as nationalisms of the imperialist core, so we should be vigilant about it and careful about relying on it.
they had some of the biggest tech and industrial headstarts you can imagine, and somehow they managed to learn fuck all
Why would they learn anything when they had headstarts? Learning is for backward countries, who have a choice to learn or perish.
This is until you do multivariate functions. Then you get for f(x(t), y(t)) this: df/dt = df/dx * dx/dt + df/dy * dy/dt
This is good actually, because it will reduce the brain drain of other countries. Critical support for JDPON Don.
Fun fact: Pink Floyd had actual skinheads play Neo-Nazis in the film.
No point in guilt. Being a labor aristocrat gives you more time and resources for building communism. All revolutionary movements had to use class traitors, and labor aristocrats are more aligned with interests of proletariat than bourgeoisie.
You still can't rid of reverence of the past. USSR revered the Paris Commune, the Paris Commune revered the Jacobins, the Jacobins revered the Roman Republic and Ancient Athens.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95.
Is this a new Gunther Fehlinger balkanization map?
"The enemy wants to capture Tula - the forge of the Red Army. Comrades, defend Tula, crush the enemy!"
The problem is that the nationalism of the oppressed can very easily morph into the nationalism of the oppressors. Look at Poland, where pre-1918 nationalism was liberatory and post-1918 it seamlessly switched to oppressing ethnic minorities.