[lbo-talk] Marx and Engels on the lazy Mexicans, Slavs, Scots, Basques, Bretons, native Americans

[Chris Doss]

If I had been a southern Slav in Austria, I certainly would not make common cause with people who refered to me as refuse.

--- On Sat, 11/8/08, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Despite Chris's objections, I think they were right to
> see German unification as a positive. Rosdolsky, who drew
> out lots of Engels more damning condemnations of the Slavs
> (Engels and the Non-historic Peoples) was condemning Engels
> for not supporting the policies of 1918 in 1848. The problem
> with the East European states that the Versailles Treaty
> created was that they were indeed lacking in an internal
> dynamic that would stop them becoming puppets of the Great
> Powers.