1\ I think now the time to say for left, who engages in history: its time to start studying tradition and history of indigenous left, and go away from Russian-centric view, where all is about Lenin. Its time to read about Tatars, Crimean tatars, chuvash, georgians, ukrainians
2\ Engaging in traditions of indegenous left can teach us a lot about national liberation, imperialism, left solidarity and democracy. Read about Ukrainian People's Republic. Aboue Belarus People's Republic, about Georgian Democratic Republic, Chuvash Central Rada etc.
3\ We need to de-colonize left-wing history, which is in dire need of reimagining with new information, to go away from idealized image of October coup to have a complex image of all the nations fighting for liberation and socialism.
4\Not only in Russia,but other countries.We should discuss indegenous left movements and their dynamics, intervention of Third International and all the conflict and destruction of the Left which it brought. We need new, complex and unapologetic left-wing post-colonial history.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
