Page "Anarchism and Marxism" Paragraph 48

Ward Churchill has gone so far as to argue in his essay on Marxism and Indigenism that Marxism is inherently imperialist and racist in effect, if not in intent, because it is based on the idea of historical progress and industrialization as inevitable, and sees industrial proletarian-based societies as more " advanced " than other societies ( particularly indigenous societies ).

Other scholars argue that the conflict has to do with the demands of running a State structure and argue that if the Bolsheviks had come to power in Poland ( for example ) instead of Russia they would have had to become Polish nationalists and would have bitterly opposed Russian attempts to dominate Poland.

Seizing the Russian State, however, meant that they had to defend the interests of that State ; and the rights of stateless nations thus became anathema.