Given my ventures into seperatist areas in Europe, I was left with this question. Does a national liberation movement need to ‘tick the left wing boxes’ so to say for ML’s to consider their support, or is support given regardless of political stances?
One movement in particular that caused this question to arise is the Flemish independence movement which is almost entirely filled with right wing nationalists. I do not support their movement. But why? If they wanted to be independent, should I be against that based on their politics? Is that a valid thing to do?
The same thing can be asked with regards to the Basque movement. Should I support them because of their wish to independence regardless of their more left leaning ideologies? Or should the politics be entirely irrelevant in this?
What do you think?
The primary impediment to socialism being Imperialism I think the line between good and not good is “does this hurt the empire.”
Would a Reactionary Flemish state do anything to harm nato or global capital? Im guessing not. Would the remaining Dutch state be more open to socialism if they were free of reactionary Flemish people? again I doubt it.
Because a free basque would likely be anti-imperial even when it was independent it should be supported.
Another interesting case is Quebec. I think they should be supported not because they will do anything great on their own but because Canada is a horrible and arrogant nation and deserves to suffer and be taken down a peg.