1. Contrary to what X and Y are saying, there is a Jewish nation. That was Stalin's line formed AFTER he wrote the theory article on nation, and is in fact a profound application of his own theory contribution on nations.
If they wish to change the existing published line in both the Stalin MT and MC5's response to a letter-writer, they need to write a detailed piece explaining why Stalin's recognition of Israel was wrong and submit it to a vote at a Congress.
2. We condemn as wishful thinking the quoting of articles that opposed the formation of an Israeli state written by Stalin, because those articles were written approximately 30 years earlier than Stalin's concrete decisions on Israel after World War II.
3. We reprimand as metaphysics and empiricism the notion that Stalin could only use the word "Jews" to mean only one thing, religion or nation. There are generalizations to make about religion and generalizations to make about nationhood. They may contradict at times, but that is no reason to throw them out unless they are more false than true and that is proved by detailed and researched articles, not reverse personality cult sniping.
As an example of a possible defense of Stalin, we remind the party that just because someone may self-identify as an "Italian" or "Italian-American," MIM does not stop itself from calling the person white or settler. We may also choose to deny any national oppression of the Irish within u.s. borders at this time and in fact we have done so.
Likewise, when discussing the national question, we have no reason to even start the question with the false premise of X and Y that we are obliged to call self-identified Jews in the usa a nation if we say Jews are a nation. We can instead choose to decide that self-identified Jews are not even Jews, and in fact are Amerikans, just as we handle the Greeks, Italians and Irish already, some of whom may make noises about their ethnicities from time to time.
We have no obligation to respect the self-identity of oppressor nations. Indeed, we may scientifically decide that the national identity of an oppressed nation is incorrect. An example would be Eritreans in Ethiopia who consider themselves Ethiopian. Though both Ethiopia and Eritrea are oppressed nations, we have an opinion on that question and we do not necessarily respect the self-identity of people even in the oppressed nations, though we are friendly to the oppressed nations peoples of whatever foggy thoughts.
4. The Jewish Israeli nation, like the white Amerikan nation, should be put in receivorship by the nations it oppresses as part of the process of national liberation, as we describe in MT7.
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