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All identities are arbitrary though.
For that matter, nationalism was *anti-*reactionary in its strongest period, in the 19th century.
Nationalism is reactionary today because it is established, and anything already well-established is a target for reactionaries, who use concepts with pre-existing attachments to dupe useful idiots into thinking that the enemies of the reactionaries and the enemies of the establishment are one and the same. Nearly any period of significant political or cultural upheaval will show that simplistic narrative flies in the face of facts. But they aren’t targeting engaged, politically aware folk. They’re targeting people who are scared and don’t want to think about it too much.
Not that nationalism is all that great to begin with. But it’s not particularly different than any other conception of identity.
💯 I was just going to post, how does the idea of India enforce colonialism? Identity is a hammer both sides have employed, I would argue it now mostly helps the right, but, everything changes with time
100% however, there’s left wing nationalism as well.
Look into Catalunya. and to a lesser degree, Scotland (they are more liberal).
Nationalism is powerful. Used in the context of liberatory struggle (ie Vietnam), it’s hard to argue.
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Not confusing, just reactionary. Your position on immigrants and Muslims serves the child rapists you purport to hate…the powerful ones for sure, but also the less powerful ones (making immigrant communities more isolated and insular doesn’t help). So shut the fuck up about immigrants and Muslims and focus on the pedophiles and fascists. Your hatred of immigrants and Muslims serves them.
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Your hatred of large swaths of people you never met, legal or otherwise, is a function of ruling class propaganda that you would do well to reject. Calling for the execution of minorities is…not cool, much less a superior form of class consciousness. It’s false consciousness.
Delete your comment and read Lenin.
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What about child rapers in churches? You conveniently left out the part where the most child rape happens in the west.
Also no one opens their gates to islamists, it seems your ideas was indirectly influenced by the most well known pedo.
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