Is the national question an aporia for humanity? How to read Rosa Luxemburg's “The national question and autonomy”

Abstract

In the second half of the 1980s, together with Perestroika in the Soviet Union, a process took place to end the Cold War as a confrontation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. At the same time, this process caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and socialist system and thereafter the separation and independence of the many nationalities that constituted the Soviet socialist system in the East and South Europe. However to our regret, such nationalities could not enjoy freedom by independence, but went to brutal wars between separated nationalities. Even after many local wars and brutalities we cannot yet find the final solution through peace and justice for peoples.

Citation

Ito, N. (2010), "Is the national question an aporia for humanity? How to read Rosa Luxemburg's “The national question and autonomy”", Zarembka, P. (Ed.) The National Question and the Question of Crisis (Research in Political Economy, Vol. 26), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-68. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-7230(2010)0000026003