@article{7f3825e5e0934c78b5398e26da44c609,
title = "The global circulation of Marxist perspectives on the national question: Borochovism at the service of the Eritrean cause",
abstract = "In 1979, a group of activists belonging to the EPLF (the Eritrean People's Liberation Front) came across a materialistic interpretation of the national question, which was penned at the turn of the century by one Dov Ber Borochov (1881–1917), a Russian–Jewish intellectual who was a leading ideologue of Marxist Zionism. Among the fruits of this encounter was a book advocating the Eritrean people's right to self-determination. Owing to developments in the Soviet Union and Marxist circles in the 1920s, Borochov's works were all but ignored throughout the remainder of the century. How, then, did a Spanish translation of his treatise, Nationalismo y lucha de clases (known in English as The National Question and Class Struggle), find its way into the hands of Eritrean nationalists? Furthermore, against the backdrop of Moscow and Havana's open support for Ethiopia, what attracted these Eritreans to the thought of an obscure Marxist–Zionist intellectual?.",
keywords = "Africa, Italy, Marxism, Spain, communism",
author = "Leonardo Cohen",
note = "Funding Information: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in Warsaw (August 2015). The project was magnanimously supported by the Foundation for the Science and Technology of Portugal and the Africa Center of Ben‐Gurion University. I am grateful to those who lent a helping hand during the research stage, providing pertinent information, feedback and encouragement. In particular, thanks go to Jos{\'e} Luis Najenson, Juan Carmelo Garc{\'i}a, Esther Shabot, Katrin Bromber, Avi Aronsky and Steven Kaplan. Funding Information: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in Warsaw (August 2015). The project was magnanimously supported by the Foundation for the Science and Technology of Portugal and the Africa Center of Ben-Gurion University. I am grateful to those who lent a helping hand during the research stage, providing pertinent information, feedback and encouragement. In particular, thanks go to Jos{\'e} Luis Najenson, Juan Carmelo Garc{\'i}a, Esther Shabot, Katrin Bromber, Avi Aronsky and Steven Kaplan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors. Nations and Nationalism published by Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/nana.12936",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "618--632",
journal = "Nations and Nationalism",
issn = "1354-5078",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "2",
}