They are”quite proud" because they’ve been lied to. They believe all sorts of untrue things about their country and are ignorant of all sorts of true things about their country. I am not opposed to patriotism as ’shared destiny', but American patriotism is both ignorant and dangerous. I also do not consider myself bound to accept whatever the working class has, as a result of their oppression, come to accept. The American working class believes quite firmly in capitalism as well as patriotism, I believe. They fear ‘socialized medicine’. Should we adopt that? What's next? Guns? Qanon?
> On Aug 22, 2020, at 07:03, Max Power <[email protected]> wrote: > > The idea of a left patriotism is a new one for me, although it probably has > to do more with my having ignored the topic as much as anything else. > > The notion of patriotism espoused here is one of a shared destiny. I think > it's true that the working class in the U.S. have that, and it's also true > that the bourgeois coasts do not. This article points out that "100% of > low-income groups in the U.S. are "very" or "quite proud" of their country." > No political party that ignores that, or disdains it, can hope to win. > > Those living on the coasts feel more kinship with their bourgeois class-mates > around the world than they do with the people who live away from the coasts > in their own country. In fact, they hold these people in contempt, and it > didn't start with Trump's election. > > I don't only post things I agree with wholeheartedly. I post things I find > interesting and well-argued, from a position that used to be called the left. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#698): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/698 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76346454/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
