I didn't even watch the video, but there's a lot of pure ideology going on in this thread. Too many fart huffing liberals for me to dunk on myself.
I didn't even watch the video, but there's a lot of pure ideology going on in this thread. Too many fart huffing liberals for me to dunk on myself.
GOOD post
I think it's important that there is a distinguished difference between patriotism and nationalism. I will admit most US patriotism stuff gives me a knee-jerk reaction to assume it's bad, typically because it is. But at the same time, I'm proud to have grown up or learned from American comrades. I got love for all comrades around the world, many people are trying to improve things in many different ways and I respect that. There are plenty of people who hate much of America but still have solidarity and love with their neighbors, friends and family, culture and art. It's just the vast majority of force fed patriotism goes directly against my ideals.
The republic is something that's important to any socialist project. America had one at some point, but it's kinda died in favor of a diffuse federation of states with a supreme capitalist bureaucracy in charge of all the currency and labor armies/real armies.
You need some form of love of your fellow worker through a shared myth of the republic, but the issue with America is that any alternative myth has been totally excised from mass consciousness. There is no working class hero, there is no just war, there is nothing but slavery and consumption backing our shared mass consciousness.