Aquí es necesario considerar la cuestión con algo más de detalle.
First of all, what is our fatherland? What is the real meaning of this word? Does it mean, people who all speak the same language; is it the same as “nation”? No, it is not.
Let us consider, for example, tsarist Russia. When the Russian bourgeoisie clamoured for the defence of the fatherland, it was not thinking of the area in which people of one nationality were living, of the area, say, inhabited by the White Russians; it was referring to the peoples of various nationalities who are settled in Russia.
What, in fact, did the bourgeoisie mean? Nothing else than the State authority of the Russian bourgeoisie and the landlords. This is what the capitalists wanted the Russian workers to defend. Really, of course, they were not thinking simply of defending it, but of extending its frontiers to include Constantinople and Cracow.
When the German bourgeoisie sang the defence of the fatherland, what was the meaning in that case? Here the reference was to the authority of the German bourgeoisie, to an extension of the boundaries of the robber State ruled by William II.
Tenemos, por tanto, que averiguar si, bajo el capitalismo, la clase trabajadora tiene patria alguna. Marx, en El Manifiesto del Partido Comunista, respondió a esta pregunta diciendo: > “Los obreros no tienen patria.” Lo que dijo era verdad. ¿Por qué? La respuesta es muy sencilla. * Porque bajo el capitalismo los obreros no tienen