

Patriotism is a tool Communists can use to bring the backwards masses forward.
Mao Zedong was speaking from a colonized country where nationalism and patriotism took the form of a national liberation struggle against colonial forces like the Japanese, British, French, etc… In the United States, nationalism and patriotism (footnote) is of the same chauvinist settler-colonial variety that we see in Israel, but on a larger scale.
footnote: not grouping this with the internal national liberation struggles of American BIPOC which is separate from US nationalism
You don’t have to like the ACP, but it’s undialectical to ignore what they actually do
What they actually do is reheat LaRouchite fascism in the microwave and try to sell it to a new generation.
They do limited mutual aid and charity work with their actual rank and file members while the streamer grifter leadership do shit like this and this and this and doxx/attack their critics just like their LaRouchite forefathers
look at that third video of Jackson Hinkle saying women shouldn’t vote unless it is under the authority of a man and tell me that’s Communist.