By Tyler Lyons On My Life Before Joining the Party Long before the onset of the COVID pandemic, I was struggling with my political identity. I had been disillusioned with…
But thats where you have been completely gaslighted by (im assuming you are american) your jingoistic education and media. Patriotism is about loving your country. Your country isnt made up of a state or an idelistic “ideal”, its made up of your people, the people who inhabit that country. Is it in the american peoples interest to support imperialism? No! Whats in their interest as workers is fighting imperialism, fighting their government. There is nothing patriotic about joining the US military and killing afghan children, thats bs that your government tells you to mantain their power. I would argue that whats patriotic is NOT joining the US military. Without anyone in the military to fight for their power, the US bourgeoisie cant rule. Thus, its a patriotic duty for every american to refuse to join the military, even if conscription were reinstated. It would be a patriotic duty to fight against the US state and for socialism. It would be a patriotic duty to support China, Russia, Cuba and other antiimperialist countries, because that gets the US closer to socialism and socialism is whats in the interests of the american people.
You should read the 2 articles from the Communist Party of Greeces newspaper i added to the original comment, which discuss patriotism. You can also read a quote from Mao i pasted down below in another comment, explaining why all communists should be patriots and why thats not incompatible with internationalism.
But thats where you have been completely gaslighted by (im assuming you are american) your jingoistic education and media. Patriotism is about loving your country. Your country isnt made up of a state or an idelistic “ideal”, its made up of your people, the people who inhabit that country. Is it in the american peoples interest to support imperialism? No! Whats in their interest as workers is fighting imperialism, fighting their government. There is nothing patriotic about joining the US military and killing afghan children, thats bs that your government tells you to mantain their power. I would argue that whats patriotic is NOT joining the US military. Without anyone in the military to fight for their power, the US bourgeoisie cant rule. Thus, its a patriotic duty for every american to refuse to join the military, even if conscription were reinstated. It would be a patriotic duty to fight against the US state and for socialism. It would be a patriotic duty to support China, Russia, Cuba and other antiimperialist countries, because that gets the US closer to socialism and socialism is whats in the interests of the american people.
You should read the 2 articles from the Communist Party of Greeces newspaper i added to the original comment, which discuss patriotism. You can also read a quote from Mao i pasted down below in another comment, explaining why all communists should be patriots and why thats not incompatible with internationalism.