I know it's not actually a real thing because I'd never seen the phrase more than a month ago and it's getting thrown around as the new insult du jour but what is it supposed to mean?
I know it's not actually a real thing because I'd never seen the phrase more than a month ago and it's getting thrown around as the new insult du jour but what is it supposed to mean?
An slur against patriotic socialism. Something that every AES country has had to implement to a certain extent in order to avoid being atomized and destroyed.
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the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Yeah this is a bad take. There's a difference between patriotism in the context of national liberation and patriotism for a settler colonialist genocidal assemblage of corporations masquerading as a country. A NVA soldier shooting yankees is not the same as some goofball named Jeff in the suburbs of Dallas saying trans people are bourgeois.
Damn, I thought we had run you losers out of the site already. Maybe go back to
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FWIW the Haz guys in particular seem to have a really flat definition of patriotism that seems to mostly just involve a lot of uncritically leaning into republican jingoism, hokey hard hat riot throwback workers-vs-hippies imagery, and sappy cottagecore fare.
On a personal level their general eagerness to preserve American culture as it exists, defined by conservatives and forever lusting after their idealized past and traditions, doesn't sit well with me. The sense that there's nothing more to life than just reliving the lives of those before me until I die always filled me with dread -- A constant, background source of alienation that contributed to me looking into left politics to begin with. I ended up here in hopes that I'd be able to break free of all that and just live.
No it isn't lmao it's a term for western reactionaries posing as communists while posting fed shit.
There's plenty of things American communists can be patriotic about without simply repeating jingoism. For instance, you can be proud of figures like Eugene V Debbs, John Brown, MLK Jr, Fred Hampton, etc. But patsocs aren't interested in that.
Agreed.