#the bund

“Anybody who has the least familiarity with the national question knows that internationalist culture is not a-national. An a-national culture, neither Russian, nor German, nor Polish…but a pure culture is an absurdity. In order to attract the working class, the internationalist ideas need to be adapted to the language spoken by the workers and to the concrete national conditions in which they live. Workers should not be indifferent to the condition and the development of their national culture, for it is only through it that they can participate in the internationalist culture of democracy and the world socialist movement. It is obvious, but VI [Lenin] turns a deaf ear to all this.”

– Vladimir Medem