НАЦИЈА И НАЦИОНАЛНО ПИТАЊЕ У СХВАТАЊУ ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКИХ СОЦИЈАЛИСТА
NATION AND NATIONALITY FROM THE STANDPOINT OF YUGOSLAV SOCIALISTS

Summary/Abstract: Questions of nationalities have been raised and solved up till now correctly only by real marxists, regardless of temporary inconsistencies and faults performed by them. Only the revolutionary representatives of the working class have seen the solution of the questions of nationalities in what represented social necessity and law. In this struggle for the social liberation and revolutionary transformation of the society Yugoslav socialists-communists have seen the part of their struggle, program, and direct tasks in the interpretation and solution of the questions of nationalities. On their way Yugoslav communists encountered different temptations, problems, and difficulties, but only through these it was made possible for the marxist theory of the nationalities to become developed, and it was made possible to find in the socialist revolution the practical solution of the questions of nationalities. In the social-democratic period, especially after the estabilishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes it was thought the the question of nationalities has been more or less solved. Social-democratic governments have cheered »the task of our national union and liberation of our three-named people.« With the foundation of the SWPY (C) and later on CP Y the great debate about the questions of nationalities has begun in the Party. In this debate two opinions, in general, have been formulated: federalistic and authonomistic. As to the first opinion, every nationality has a right to decide on bases of the equality of nationalities and by its free will about its entrance into the federation. As. to the other opinion, the solution of the questions of nationalities was in the constitutional revision. During the social-democratic period one of the leading personalities in the CPY, as its first secretary and theoreticien, was Filip Filipovic. He was one of the first Yugoslav marxists that have analyzed the questions of nationalities in context of all the social processes and relations and from the scientific standpoint, too, i.e., from the standpoint of history, sociology and political science. „In the scope of the questions of nationalities, wrote Filipovic, the central task is to move proletariat, peasants and opressed nationalities into the united and revolutionary struggle for the right of all the people of Yugoslavia to self-determination, including the right to secession, against the principal enemy — hegemony of the Serbian bourgeoisie and its monarchy.“

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