American leftist Twitter is constantly at war with itself, which it then normalizes by pointing out all the famous schisms among communists and socialists. But something stands out as exceptional: there is no nationalism among the American left. Strong anti-nationalism actually./— Ye Voter (@Mont_Jiang) October 29, 2020
Finding a way to basically separate the bourgeoisie from the national identity in the minds of the proletariat is something I haven't thought about and seems like an interesting strategy at face level, but I would worry that it would be very easy for that to spin off in a more chauvinist direction if a dedicated party doesn't have tight control over the movement, since it could easily stray into (((gLoBaLiSt))) territory. I don't think it's that hard of a sell to paint the bourgeoisie in the US as fundamentally more committed to an international capitalist project rather than the betterment of the US and it's people, though.
I don't think that would work very well because the petit bourgeoisie tends to be quite nationalist in the US. If you end up with people thinking it's only the big time ones that are a problem, seeing the small business owners being nationalist and therefore leaning more towards their side of things politically could easily lead to people not wanting real change.
The movement still has to be centered around the proletariat, but I have been thinking that there is some usefulness in pointing towards how the Walmarts and Amazon's of the world have destroyed local communities/culture, and part of that, while not necessarily raising up local small businesses, would involve not really putting them directly in the crosshairs.
Finding a way to basically separate the bourgeoisie from the national identity in the minds of the proletariat is something I haven't thought about and seems like an interesting strategy at face level, but I would worry that it would be very easy for that to spin off in a more chauvinist direction if a dedicated party doesn't have tight control over the movement, since it could easily stray into (((gLoBaLiSt))) territory. I don't think it's that hard of a sell to paint the bourgeoisie in the US as fundamentally more committed to an international capitalist project rather than the betterment of the US and it's people, though.
I don't think that would work very well because the petit bourgeoisie tends to be quite nationalist in the US. If you end up with people thinking it's only the big time ones that are a problem, seeing the small business owners being nationalist and therefore leaning more towards their side of things politically could easily lead to people not wanting real change.
The movement still has to be centered around the proletariat, but I have been thinking that there is some usefulness in pointing towards how the Walmarts and Amazon's of the world have destroyed local communities/culture, and part of that, while not necessarily raising up local small businesses, would involve not really putting them directly in the crosshairs.