DEATH to AMERICA
The main contradiction in global capitalism is imperialism. Patriotism in the global south may undermine imperialism and is therefore okay. Patriotism in the global north strengthens imperialism and is therefore far from okay.
No the Anarchists are right it’s just that their methodology for getting to a stateless society is extremely difficult to implement to the point of being infeasible.
Context matters tho. Like, I’m not going to judge a Vietnamese person for being a patriot if their patriotism is based on the fact that their country broke the shackles of colonialism and fought off multiple imperialist invaders. That’s not in any way comparable to some dipshit from the US being a patriot because burgers, trucks, and fReEdOm.
Even if we take this characterisation at face value,i n this context patriotism, nations and States are a disease in the same way viruses that can kill cancer cells are . The cancer that is colonialism and imperialism has never historicaly been comprehensively defeated by a people at large enough scales and long enough durations without a patriotic/national liberation character and without utilization of statist structures.
Well irl we do have alternative treatments that have shown that they work against the cancers some virus also kill but in this parallel there has only been the “disease” that has worked
Yup, same with anything that has “traditional” in the name (Traditionalist Worker Party was a US neo-nazi group). Always gotta be on the lookout for those fucking strasserists
Browderism worked out great last time. It definitely didn’t just alienate international comrades and lead socialists to support insane shit like the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Love to call myself anti-imperialist and communist while waving the flag of the strongest anti-communist empire in history.
