What distinguishes a national community from a state community? The fact, among others, that a national community is inconceivable without a common language, while a state need not have a common language.
I got those books from the ProleWiki article on Language.
Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, 1950.
Marxism and the National Question, 1913, specifically when he talks about language on The Nation:
I got those books from the ProleWiki article on Language.
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