National personal autonomy

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National personal autonomy is one form of non-territorial autonomy that grew out of autonomy ideas developed by Austromarxist thinkers.

One of these theorists was

territory and making of the nation a non-territorial association.[1] The other ideological founders of the concept were another Austromarxist, Karl Renner, in his 1899 essay Staat und Nation (State and Nation),[2] and the Jewish Labour Bundist Vladimir Medem, in his 1904 essay Di sotsial-demokratie un di natsionale frage (Social Democracy and the National Question).[3][4]

Medem

In his 1904 text, Medem exposed his version of the concept:

Let us consider the case of a country composed of several national groups, e.g. Poles, Lithuanians and Jews. Each national group would create a separate movement. All citizens belonging to a given national group would join a special organisation that would hold cultural assemblies in each region and a general cultural assembly for the whole country. The assemblies would be given financial powers of their own: either each national group would be entitled to raise taxes on its members, or the state would allocate a proportion of its overall budget to each of them. Every citizen of the state would belong to one of the national groups, but the question of which national movement to join would be a matter of personal choice and no authority would have any control over his decision. The national movements would be subject to the general legislation of the state, but in their own areas of responsibility they would be autonomous and none of them would have the right to interfere in the affairs of the others.[5]

Supporters

This principle was later adopted by various parties, among them the

Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania
(DAHR) after 1989.

Opponents

The whole concept was strongly opposed by the

Lenin's Critical Remarks on the National Question (December 1913), in particular in the chapter "Cultural-National Autonomy".[6][7][8] (Stalin was later People's Commissar of Nationalities from 1917 - 1923.) Lenin's and Stalin's critiques of the national personal autonomy concept were later joined by the Catalan Andreu Nin in his article The Austrian School, National Emancipation Movements (1935).[9]

Implementation

It was adopted as an official policy in the short-lived

Estonian Republic (1925 Law on Personal Autonomy), and it was included in the Declaration Concerning the Protection of Minorities in Lithuania by the League of Nations in 1925.[6][10][11]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8166-3265-7
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  2. ISBN 978-0-415-24964-5
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  3. Yiddish
    : Medem, V. 1943. “Di sotsial-demokratie un di natsionale frage” (1904). Vladimir Medem: Tsum tsvantsikstn yortsayt. New York: New York: Der Amerikaner Reprezentants fun Algemeynem Yidishn Arbeter-Bund (‘Bund’) in Poyln, pp. 173-219.
  4. ISSN 1918-2821. Archived from the original
    on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  5. ^ Plassereaud, Yves (May 2000). "Choose Your Own Nationality or The Forgotten History of Cultural Autonomy". Le Monde diplomatique. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
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  7. ^ Stalin, Joseph (March–May 1913). Marxism and the National Question. Prosveshcheniye. Retrieved 2009-11-12 – via Marxists Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Lenin, Vladimir (October–December 1913). Critical Remarks on the National Question. Prosveshcheniye. Archived from the original on 2005-11-19. Retrieved 2009-11-12 – via Marxists Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Nin, Andrés (1935). "Austro-Marxism and the National Question (chapter in National Emancipation Movements)". Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-11-12 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
  10. ^ "Law on Cultural Autonomy for National Minorities". The Estonian Institute. 1925. Archived from the original on 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
  11. ^ "Declaration concerning the protection of minorities in Lithuania" (PDF). League of Nations. 1922. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-20. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
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