Book Details

The four articles in this collection are part of an important debate that ran during 2019-22. This debate took place in the columns of Hindi magazine Muktikaami Chhatron Yuvaon Ka Aahwan and Punjabi magazines Pratibaddh and Lalkaar. The debate centred on the subject of the national question. The first article is the main theoretical article which presents a detailed critique of the non-Marxist, Austro-Marxist, Bundist, Trotskyist, national chauvinist and linguistic identitarian position of Pratibaddh and Lalkaar on the national question. We have cited excerpts from the article on national question published in Issue no. 33 of Pratibaddh and provided detailed context for the benefit of the readers. Along with this, in our criticism we have also provided quotations from classical Marxist-Leninist literature with references to the context. The second article contains the refutation of the ignorant views presented by Pratibaddh and Lalkaar on the historical facts pertaining to the resolution of national question in Soviet Russia and later Soviet Union. The third article in this collection sums up the points of debate with the Lalkaar-Pratibaddh group and once again exposes the inanities of the positions espoused by this group on the national question. The article also takes to task various opportunist trends within the movement which are maintaining conspiratorial silence on the pernicious Trot-Bundist line of this group. The fourth article, which is the last one in this collection, exposes the federalist-revisionist distortion of Marxist theory and the Soviet history by the leadership of Pratibaddh group. It also demonstrates with ample evidence that how this group’s leadership has resorted to intellectual dishonesty, including furnishing false quotes from a document of great historical importance such as the Soviet Constitution, to seek justification for its anti-Marxist nationalist line.