ABSTRACT
During the last twenty years, the national question has undergone important modifications. To-day, however, duplicity and half-heartedness as concerns the national question have become obsolete. Leninism has disclosed the glaring inconsistency of the old outlook. Making no distinction between whites and blacks, between Europeans and Asiatics, between the "civilised" and the "uncivilised" slaves of imperialism, Leninists link up the national question with the colonial question. Thereby the national question has been broadened out, so that it is no longer the private concern of any one nation, but is a general and international concern. Reformists regarded the national question as a problem standing by itself, unrelated to the general problem of the power of capital, that of the oppression exercised by imperialism, that of the proletarian revolution. The national question is part of the general question of the proletarian revolution, part of the question of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
