Stalin’s definition of nation was ahistoric and tautological.

Evidence

This extraordinary passage is perhaps characteristic of Stalin’s theoretical contributions to Marxist thought and to world knowledge. First, it too is ahistoric, since no contemporary nation has emerged in this way; second, it is abstract and vague, utilizing such phrases as “psychological constitution”; third, it is tautological: community manifests itself as community; and finally, it is not Marxian, tending as it does toward an evolutionary paradigm as opposed to that of historical materialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1066

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply dismantles the Stalinist definition that underwrote the Black Belt Thesis.