V. I. Lenin Collected Works London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1960, Vol. 20, p. 412 "The Right of Nations to Self-Determination" The bourgeois nationalism of any oppressed nation has a general democratic content that is directed against oppression, and it is this content that we unconditionally support. [MC5 adds: : Thanks to former SDS leader Noel Ignatin for pointing out this Lenin quote in the defunct Urgent Tasks magazine. People who say Stalin and Mao invented the policy of allying with the national bourgeoisie obviously did not read this Lenin work or even more forceful line statements from the COMINTERN.]