We will look at the rise of the Jewish Labor Bund on one side and Zionism on the other and their respective class relations in response to increasing anti-jewish racism along side the development of capitalism in eastern Europe and the development of its imperial phase globally. We'll look at the debates regarding autonomy, self-determination of nations, cultural/linguistic autonomy, oppressed nations within nations, self-organization, etc. and frame it within the argument that only a principled and relentless struggle against racism and all forms of oppression alone is capable of uniting and building the working-class under the banner of the revolutionary party toward the overthrow of capitalism; that ending racism is “both necessary for the proletarian revolution, and impossible without it.”