Episode 151: Lenin on the Irish Independence Struggle and National Self-Determination Today

January 30
1h 4m

Episode Description

To help work out the dialectic of national self-determination in the face of Trump’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, etc., Andrew and Gabriel revisit 1914-16
writings of V.I. Lenin on Ireland’s struggle for independence from England. They discuss Lenin’s response to Rosa Luxemburg, who thought that national self-determination is impossible, and his
defense of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. In addition, they discuss why it was Marx’s custom to “sound out” acquaintances about their attitudes to national self-determination. (See episode
page for links to writings.)

In the episode’s current-events segment, the co-hosts discuss the fightback against the Trump regime’s aggression against Greenland and Minneapolis, as two facets of one struggle.

Radio Free Humanity is co-hosted by Gabriel Donnelly and Andrew Kliman, and sponsored by
Marxist-Humanist Initiative (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/ ).
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