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300 THE COMMUNIST The Bolshevik Party in Russia did not work out any separate national problems for the various nationalities which inhabited Czarist Russia, because the national programmes of struggle arose directly from the nature and character of the corresponding stages in the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks fought for the right to the national forms of struggle which arise from the general programme of the revolution. According to Shick the Comintern has introduced a certain "nuance," i.e. the Comintern recognizes for the Negroes the right to self-determination only in so far as they fight for land. According to Shick the self-dertermination slogan is a slogan of the agrarian revolution. The agrarian revolution, and it alone, gives the Negroes the right to self-determination. In other words, the Comintern has allegedly adopted on the Negro question the point of view of the Russian "Left Communists," recognizing in relation to the Negroes the "self-determintion for toilers" slogan to be correct. That this is not so, that the Comintern does not advance the agrarian revolution as a preliminary condition for the self-determination of the Negroes, is clear to anyone who reads the resolution of the Comintern. Shick does not dare to reject the decisions of the Comintern, but he endeavors to depict them as advocating "agrarian self-determination." Comrade Shick sys that "the slogan of self-determintion for the Black Belt means a slogan of the agrarian revolution." The Negro revolutionary moment will to a considerable extent have the agrarian revolution as its economic content, but Comrade Shick puts the equality sign between self-determination and the agrarian revolution and accuses the Comintern of having adopted the position of the "Left-Communists," simply in order to have an opportunity to deny the progressiveness of the struggle of the Negroes for democracy. But the struggle of the Negroes for democracy makes it inevitably necessary for the American proletariat to recognize the Negroes' right to self-determination. Comrade Shick "disdainfully" refers to the "petty-bourgeois movement for democracy," moreover, he denies the progressiveness of such a movement and the duty of the proletariat to support it. Here is what he says: "We Marxian Leninists for whom the foundation of the revolutionary bourgeois national movement is a struggle of the industrial bourgeoisie for the home market and not a struggle of usurers for a chance to exploit and not merely a petty bourgeois movement for democracy, of course cannot accept such formulae." We have already spoken of the movement of the "industrial bourgeoisie," but no one has ever counted the usurers among the