Overthrowing the outsider colonial governors who rule through corruption and violence.
Communism and anti-colonialism went hand-in-hand for over a century. You absolutely could be a Patriot while championing a Leftist cause.
Americans would do well to tie Socialism to Home Rule and denounce de-industrialization, rent extraction, and resource exploitation as antithetical to Patriotism.
I guess they can stick with doing Land Acknowledgements before DSA meetings and paying reparations to Black Hammer until they feel better about themselves.
But good luck doing a Maoism when you've got half an apartment block full of liberals telling the other half that seizing the means of production is disrespectful to First Nations People.
Overthrowing the outsider colonial governors who rule through corruption and violence.
Communism and anti-colonialism went hand-in-hand for over a century. You absolutely could be a Patriot while championing a Leftist cause.
Americans would do well to tie Socialism to Home Rule and denounce de-industrialization, rent extraction, and resource exploitation as antithetical to Patriotism.
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I guess I'm just not online enough to run into these people.
Or American leftists could not champion nationalism on stolen land.
I guess they can stick with doing Land Acknowledgements before DSA meetings and paying reparations to Black Hammer until they feel better about themselves.
But good luck doing a Maoism when you've got half an apartment block full of liberals telling the other half that seizing the means of production is disrespectful to First Nations People.
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A sense of community and comradery doesn't need to preclude an understanding of history or a pursuit of justice.
I agree, but a sense of community doesn't need to entail nationalism. The majority of humans before the 15th century can tell you that.
I'd argue Christianity, Islam, and Confusionism were all setting the groundwork well before the 15th century.
The primary obstacles to nation building were technological, not ideological.
So nationalism is just a curse of industrialization?
A consequence of it.
More people being able to organize around a larger shared space under a common language and culture is hardly a bad thing.