Recognition of oppressed nations’ secession right is required to unite proletarians across nations

Evidence

Lenin understood better than his comrades of the revolutionary left the dialectical relationship between internationalism and the right of national self-determination. He understood, firstly, that only the freedom to secede makes possible free and voluntary union Secondly, that only the recognition by the workers’ movement in the oppressor nation of the right of the oppressed nation to self-determination can help to eliminate the hostility and suspicion of the oppressed, and unite the proletariat of both nations in the international struggle against the bourgeoisie. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 366

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into how the Second International and colonial parties handled national liberation, relevant to the reader’s search for the Black radical tradition’s development against orthodox Marx.