• comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It was desperate measure of 30s though, to find common ground amidst class war in ussr before invasion. It should have been temporary deviation (to use, not to instill). Alas, patriotism got its wormhooks, and mutated over ussr decay period into nationalism. One shouldn’t mistake that for patriotism being desirable.

    • volkvulture [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      No, proletarian patriotism in USSR was a constant throughout... as it was in East Germany after WWII

      Chauvinism isn't desirable, but pride in one's country & people is

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Genuinely where before 30s? Movies about great man to instill pride in past where done then, church was slowly let go.

        It isn’t desirable, it’s sometimes necessary evil to forge bonds between classes, but they are rotten from within. As soon as you have more solidarity with petit bourgeois fuck than with worker, cause one is from the same nation and the latter isn’t, you’ve got a problem.

        National xenophobic issues in ussr give fairly illustrative example, with slow displacement into Russian chauvinism.

        • volkvulture [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Soviet patriotism & the "Soviet person" was simultaneously proletarian internationalist & proud of their heritage & national identity

          Yes, love of one's country & people is "socialism" at its very heart. There is no "forging bonds between classes" as such, it's about promoting socially necessary relations between & among Soviet nations. Indigenization was part of this process, but so was the "New Soviet man", these process worked in tandem

          Great-Russian chauvinism always existed in those areas, and only a "patriotic socialism" could address it

          • comi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            But new soviet man wasn’t rooted in nation crucially, while patriotism was. Just look into output of movies before war, with nevsky and grozny pics. It’s fairly obvious what they are doing and why: they are telling kulaks and assorted declassed elements - look, at least we are russians, we can kill any invasion.

            Country is garbage heap invented whole cloth after feudalism has finished dividing finite land. What is one’s country if you are born in Lorraine?

            People is one thing, you can like your place of growing up (as in location and people), people like remembering childhood. but being proud of kings who fucked over all your ancestry requires truly mesmerizing leap to be considered desirable.

            Class solidarity could address it, with indifference to place of birth. But alas, the germany got fucked

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Stalin referred to the Russian nation as the "elder brother" among the constituent republics. The New Soviet man was integral to forming the Soviet patriotism in both its many constituent national contexts & in the overall production of Soviet national identity

              Marx was born in Trier which is in the "Sar-Lor-Lux" region, and is inherently a mishmash of Francophone & Germanic influences. But Marx was German

              Patriotic socialism has nothing to do with being proud of kings

              East Germany was patriotic in the Cold War period

              • comi [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Yes, and I’m again telling you the reason why stalin did it: it was class glue to hold on till the war, or the vlasov affair prolly would have been much worse.

                You don’t need patriotism, ffs, worker solidarity isn’t patriotism, and worker pride (so to say) isn’t patriotism.

                The Soviet Union took shortcut and it backfired 50 years later when shortcut engineers were purged, and nomenklatura decided that all was fine, we should continue. considering the boomer state in eastern europe - it backfired everywhere

                • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  The purge was ongoing, and Soviet patriotism existed before the 1930s and after the war as well

                  Patriotism is exactly what USSR promoted, in a proletarian internationalist context

                  It wasn't the socialist patriotism that backfired, it was the anti-Stalinist turn

                  • comi [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    Again, where?

                    Because it’s very neat shortcut allowing to involve national and petit bourgeoisie in liberation struggle. But it’s that - shortcut to first stage of revolution.

                    Yes, and that turn includes leaving patriotism fester and morph beneath the surface.