Marxism & the Question of Nationalities

J.V. Stalin
Marxism & the Question of Nationalities

The struggle began and flared up, to be sure, not between nations as a whole, but between the ruling classes of the dominant nations and of those that had been pushed into the background ……It is not difficult to see that this programme retains certain traces of “territorialism,” but that in general it gives a formulation of national autonomy…..In short, since culture Is not territory, and territory is not culture, cultural-national autonomy is required.