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Article: On self-determination. (Quebec movement) (response to Leo Panitch's response to editorial in Oct-Nov 1994 issue)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- December 1, 1994
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CD was absolutely right, in its October/November editorial, to say that the Left needs to do some hard thinking about self-determination.
A good place to start would be to ask whether that familiar canon of the Left, 'the right to self-determination,' actually means anythin, or whether it is another empty slogan whose main utility is that the Left can repeat it like a mantra and so save itself the trouble of thinking critically.
The traditional Leftist position was well represented by Leo Panitch's response to CD's editorial. Panitch's position boils down to three points: that we should suport Quebec's right to self-determination; that the only ...