FALSE NATIONALISM
FALSE INTERNATIONALISM

by E. Tani and Kaé Sera


My whole life has been a series of failures, and the history of my country has been a history of failure. I have had only one victory — over myself. This one small victory, however, is enough to give me confidence to go on. Fortunately, the tragedy and defeat I have experienced have not broken but strengthened me. I have few illusions left, but I have not lost faith in men and in the ability of men to create history. Who shall know the will of history? Only the oppressed who must overthrow force in order to live. Only the undefeated in defeat who have lost everything to gain a whole new world in the last battle. Oppression is pain, and pain is consciousness. Consciousness means movement. Millions of men must die and tens of millions must suffer before humanity can be born again. I accept this objective fact. The sight of blood and death and of stupidity and failure no longer obstructs my vision of the future.


-Kim San






Table of Contents


INTRODUCTION

Reviewing Neo-Colonialism

The Role of Classes In False Internationalism

From the Old to the New

Growing Contradictions Within the Continental Empire


I..... THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL STRUGGLES TO COMMUNISM: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE (Finnish-Russian Anti-Imperialist Alliance 1900-1917)

Footnotes


II.... FALSE INTERNATIONALISM IN CHINA (European Intervention in the Chinese Revolution 1920-1935)

China: Thirteen Years of Struggle

Footnotes


III... NEW AFRIKAN ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE 1930s (The Struggle to Support Ethiopian Independence)

Using The Attraction of Internationalism

Leading the Oppressed Away from Armed Struggle

Ethiopia and New Afrika - Same Struggle

Dividing the Nation Against Itself

Promoting Defeatism and Betrayal

Footnotes


IV.... SETTLER "COMMUNISM" (How European Settler "Communists" Tried Using Neo-Colonial Alliances to Dominate Arab, Asian and New Afrikan Revolutionaries)

"Communism vs. Liberation"

Asians Under U.S. Communism

Early New Afrikan Communism

Footnotes


V..... FREEDOM NOW! (1960's Civil Rights Movement)

The Civil Rights Stage of Anti-Colonial Struggle

The Bullet and the Ballot

The Year of Counter-Insurgency

Malcom and Rebellion

Footnotes


VI.... THE VIETNAM CATALYST (How The Struggle Between Imperialism and the Vietnamese Revolution Pushed Political Development Within the US Empire)

Footnotes


VII... BIRTH OF EURO-AMERIKAN ANTI-IMPERIALISM (Solidarity with National Liberation Movements: LSM & WUO)

LSM and WUO

Footnotes


VIII.. BLACK POWER & NEW AFRIKAN REVOLUTION ("Ghetto" Uprisings, Nationalism and New Revolutionary Organizations)

A Period of Crisis

The Rebellions of 1967-1968

The Co-Optation of Black Power

False Internationalism and Revolutionary Set-Backs

Army Without Party

Dividing the Nation vs. Uniting the Nation

Footnotes


IX.... NYACK -- THE ROAD TO NOWHERE (Neo-Colonialism & The Revolutionary Armed Task Force)

What was RATF?

Evaluating RATF's Military Work

The Effects of Political Backwardness

Political Defeat at the Hands of the State

Exceptional White People

Amateur Strategy and Neo-Colonialism

The Other Side of Protracted War

Lessons

Footnotes