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description: .In our draft Party programme we have advanced the demand for a republic with a democratic constitution that would guarantee among other things recognition of the right to self-determination for all nations forming part of the state. Many did not find this demand in our programme sufficiently clear and in issue No. 33 in speaking about the Manifesto of the Armenian Social-Democrats we explained the meaning of this point in the following way. The Social-Democrats will always combat every attempt to influence national self-determination from without by violence or by any injustice. However our unreserved recognition of the struggle for freedom of self-determination does not in any way commit us to supporting every demand for national self-determination. As the party of the proletariat the Social-Democratic Party considers i to be its positive and principal task to further the self-determination of the proletariat in each nationality rather than that of peoples or nations. We must always and unreservedly work for the very closest unity of the proletariat of all nationalities and it is only in isolated and exceptional cases that we can advance and actively support demands conducive to the establishment of a new class state or to the substitution of a looser federal unity etc. for the complete political unity of a state.[* See pp. 326-29 of this volume.Ed.]
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title: .The National Question in Our Programme
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