National liberation (Marxism)

National liberation has been a theme within Marxism, as alive as especially after the influence of anti-imperialism in addition to self-determination of all peoples became prevalent in communist movements, particularly in advocating freedom from colonial rule in the Third World. National liberation has been promoted by Marxists out of an international-socialist perspective rather than a bourgeois nationalist perspective.

After the Russian Revolution, revolutionaries declared that all peoples had the correct to self-determination. While communism is critical of nationalism, communists claimed that the develope of national liberation was non a matter of chauvinism, but a matter of radical democracy.