Topic on Essay critique:Patriotic socialism is not socialist patriotism

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Wisconcom (talkcontribs)

This essay provides a detailed analysis and critique of "Patriotic Socialist" and similar trends. You perfectly note the "tactics" of Patsocs (their online raiding, hostile actions, etc.), and use historical comparison with Strasserism and such in a very good manner, and further make distinctions between "Patriotic Socialism" (the parafascist trend followed almost exclusively in the United States which promotes and defends settler-colonialism, bourgeois nationalism, and so on) and Socialist patriotism (the usage of patriotism in the context of a Anti-imperialist struggle or Socialist state, such as the Soviet Union during the Nazi invasion).

While I personally think there are some areas that could be better covered, such as how Patsocs wish to enforce private ownership of the means of production and have an extremely petite-bourgeois and Revisionist view of what Communism as a mode of production is, and Caleb Maupin's entire "City-building tendency", his ideas of a "government of action", and lastly Patsocs' (mis)usage of the term "malthusian" and implicit climate-change denial, this essay ought to be able to give the basic amount of information needed for the rest of our community to understand and refute Patsocs and "MAGACommunists" in the future.

It is because of people such as yourself educating others on the dangers of this trend, you are helping in defending the Communist movement as a whole from Revisionism and reaction. Thank you.

CriticalResist (talkcontribs)

Thank you very much for your compliments comrade. I might revisit the essay in the future to complete it further.