56. The vote results dated 3/27/94 include one which passed from 86:
"Cut: "If ultimately given such authority by the First nations." Liberated socialist areas do not need to be given "authority" by formations that are not necessarily socialist; and the liberated areas have their own power for self-determination. This recognizes that no socialist government will oppress any nation or encroach on the territory any anti-imperialist nation inhabits or has seized from Amerika."
MIM now rejects this vote, recognizing it as self-contradictory and objectively a great-nation-chauvinist liquidation of the right to self-determination of the First Nations. (Self-contradictory in that denying the First Nations' masses the right to self-determination is itself a form of oppression). Lenin recognized that the right of oppressed nations to self-determination extended to the right to bourgeois nationalist secession from a socialist state. Likewise, the right of the peoples of colonies of settlement, such as the First Nations, to self-determination, extends to the right to outright deport the settlers to their or their ancestors' country or continent of origin. MIM does not expect such a drastic measure to be well-advised or necessary--a proletarian dictatorship over the settlers would likely be a more effective method of preventing colonialist-restoration. Nonetheless, a government on North American soil cannot be truly socialist if it does not have the support of the majority of the First Nations masses.
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