National personal autonomy

National personal autonomy is one form of non-territorial autonomy that grew out of autonomy ideas developed by Austromarxist thinkers.

One of these theorists was Otto Bauer who published his view of national personal autonomy in his 1907 book Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (The Nationalities Question and Social Democracy) was seen by him a way of gathering the geographically divided members of the same nation to "organize nations not in territorial bodies but in simple association of persons", thus radically disjoining the nation from the territory and making of the nation a non-territorial association.^[1] The other ideological founders of the concept were another Austromarxist, Karl Renner, in his 1899 essay Staat und Nation (State and Nation),^[2] and the Jewish Labour Bundist Vladimir Medem, in his 1904 essay Di sotsial-demokratie un di natsionale frage (Social Democracy and the National Question).^[3]^[4]

^ Bauer, Otto (2000). Nimni, Ephraim J. (ed.). The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy. Translated by O'Donnell, Joseph. University of Minnesota Press. p. 696. ISBN 978-0-8166-3265-7.
^ All of Renner's essay is reproduced in an English translation in Nimni, Ephraim, ed. (2005). National Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics. Routledge. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-415-24964-5.
^ Yiddish: Medem, V. 1943. “Di sotsial-demokratie un di natsionale frage” (1904). Vladimir Medem: Tsum tsvantsikstn yortsayt. New York: New York: Der Amerikaner Reprezentants fun Algemeynem Yidishn Arbeter-Bund (‘Bund’) in Poyln, pp. 173-219.
^ Gechtman, Roni (December 2008). "National-Cultural Autonomy and 'Neutralism': Vladimir Medem's Marxist Analysis of the National Question, 1903-1920". Socialist Studies. III (1). ISSN 1918-2821. Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2009-12-02.

[1] Bauer, Otto (2000). Nimni, Ephraim J. (ed.). The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy. Translated by O'Donnell, Joseph. University of Minnesota Press. p. 696. ISBN 978-0-8166-3265-7.

[2] All of Renner's essay is reproduced in an English translation in Nimni, Ephraim, ed. (2005). National Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics. Routledge. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-415-24964-5.

[3] Yiddish: Medem, V. 1943. “Di sotsial-demokratie un di natsionale frage” (1904). Vladimir Medem: Tsum tsvantsikstn yortsayt. New York: New York: Der Amerikaner Reprezentants fun Algemeynem Yidishn Arbeter-Bund (‘Bund’) in Poyln, pp. 173-219.

[4] Gechtman, Roni (December 2008). "National-Cultural Autonomy and 'Neutralism': Vladimir Medem's Marxist Analysis of the National Question, 1903-1920". Socialist Studies. III (1). ISSN 1918-2821. Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2009-12-02.

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