National liberation has been a theme within Marxism, and especially after the influence of anti-imperialism and self-determination of all peoples became prevalent in Communism, communist movements, especially in advocating freedom from Neocolonialism, colonial rule in the Third World. National liberation has been promoted by Marxists out of an Proletarian internationalism, international-socialist perspective rather than a Bourgeois nationalism, bourgeois nationalist perspective.
[Terry Eagleton: ''Why Marx Was Right''. Yale University Press, 2011, p. 217.]
After the Russian Revolution, revolutionaries declared that all peoples had the right to self-determination. While communism is critical of nationalism, communists claimed that the cause of national liberation was not a matter of chauvinism, but a matter of radical democracy.
See also
*Left-wing nationalism
*National delimitation in the Soviet Union
*National Question
*Marxism–Leninism
*Socialist patriotism
References
{{Marxist and communist phraseology
Communist terminology
Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Leninism
National liberation movements,