I am not a PatSoc. I am a Communist living in the United States. I want my country to embrace socialism and anti-imperialism because I want things to IMPROVE for my country. Why? Because I LOVE my fellow citizens. Imperialism HURTS my countrymen (globalism and monopolies seeking profits abroad has deindustrialized my country)
You might dislike certain PatSocs. That's fine. But to reject patriotic socialism is fucking intolerable. I am angry because the implication is that in order for me to be a "good communist" I must hate my country. Why shall I improve something if I hate it? shall I not just sit back and let the imperialist kill my fellow citizens?
This is asinine. I will not change the page to be pro-PatSoc. But we need a serious, encyclopedic tone. I am exhausted by this which appears to be an ultra-leftist deviation.
"I hate America, vote for me" -- Communists running for office?
"I hate America, here's why you should listen to me" -- Communists standing on their Soap Boxes in the Town Squares
Did the communists of the 1930s reject proletarian patriotism? Does the modern CPUSA reject patriotism? Did British communists in the 1930s reject patriotism? Anyone who LOVES their country would want an END to corruption, wars of aggression, and other various evils carried out by their state.
Shall Americanism be the sole property of the corrupt, evil, greedy bourgeoisie? Shall the American proletariat not seek to re-take it for itself, fighting against the New Economic Royalists? Seems defeatist to me.
I reject national chauvinism. I also reject anti-patriotism. A patriot would want to end neoliberalism and imperialism. A patriot wants peaceful coexistence between civilization-states, a patriot wants colonized groups to have sovereignty, economy growth, social support, and all the resources necessary for their national cultures to be preserved and enhanced.
sigh.