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'''Patriotic Socialism''', whose adherents are sometimes called "'''PatSocs'''" (shortened version of "'''Patriotic Socialists'''") is a third rail issue in modern American politics which rejects the historical nihilism of the anti-patriotic [[Synthetic Left|Synthetic Leftists]]. | |||
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== "PatSoc" polemic == | == "PatSoc" polemic == | ||
The topic of | The topic of Patriotism and Socialism in America became the subject of online polemic in mid-2022, with a range of criticisms from questions around [[Patriotic Internationalism]], to claiming that one cannot be both a socialist and a patriot in America, given it's origins as a settler-colonial venture, and it's current status as [[American Imperialism|the leading imperialist power]]. The controversy resulted in the coining of a contentious term "PatSoc" (short for "Patriotic Socialist") to refer to the proponents of [[American Communism]]. | ||
American Communists hold that Communism in American should take a patriotic orientation<ref>''[https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/in-defense-of-us-proletarian-patriotism-a-comradely-response-to-danny-haiphongs-marxist-polemic-on-patriotic-socialism-by-kayla-popuchet In Defense of U.S. Proletarian Patriotism: A comradely response to Danny Haiphong’s “Marxist” Polemic on Patriotic Socialism]'' by [[Kayla Popuchet]] on [[Midwestern Marx]]</ref> and gain a definite [[Communism with American characteristics|national form]] as a matter of consistency with the reality of [[Marxist-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] tradition. | American Communists hold that Communism in American should take a patriotic orientation<ref>''[https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/in-defense-of-us-proletarian-patriotism-a-comradely-response-to-danny-haiphongs-marxist-polemic-on-patriotic-socialism-by-kayla-popuchet In Defense of U.S. Proletarian Patriotism: A comradely response to Danny Haiphong’s “Marxist” Polemic on Patriotic Socialism]'' by [[Kayla Popuchet]] on [[Midwestern Marx]]</ref> and gain a definite [[Communism with American characteristics|national form]] as a matter of consistency with the reality of [[Marxist-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] tradition. | ||
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==== Utopian universal internationalism ==== | ==== Utopian universal internationalism ==== | ||
<blockquote>"Across the rest of the world Marxist-Leninists never advocated on behalf of an abstract supranational working class nor did they preach the destruction of their own nations to berate their own people for their ostensible backwardness on the contrary marxist limited parties were successful for the precise reason that they could connect with and give body to the strivings of a concrete and determinate people other than superimposing on them foreign and abstract doctrines" | <blockquote>"Across the rest of the world Marxist-Leninists never advocated on behalf of an abstract supranational working class nor did they preach the destruction of their own nations to berate their own people for their ostensible backwardness on the contrary marxist limited parties were successful for the precise reason that they could connect with and give body to the strivings of a concrete and determinate people other than superimposing on them foreign and abstract doctrines" | ||
Socialist Patriotism: America vs. America" by Infrared Collective<ref name=":0" /></blockquote> | Socialist Patriotism: America vs. America" by Infrared Collective<ref name=":0">Socialist Patriotism: America vs. America by Infrared<nowiki/>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveOKE4Ones&t=328s</ref></blockquote> | ||
==== Accusations of Chauvinism ==== | ==== Accusations of Chauvinism ==== | ||
Accusations of chauvinism against American Communists were unfounded, for example claims that PatSocs were against Indigenous sovereignty. | Accusations of chauvinism against American Communists were unfounded, for example claims that PatSocs were against Indigenous sovereignty. | ||
=== Outcomes of the polemic === | === Outcomes of the polemic === | ||
Eventually resulted in a [[MAGACommunism|political re-alignment]] and [[split with the American Left]]. | Eventually resulted in a [[MAGACommunism|political re-alignment]] and [[split with the American Left]]. | ||
== Relevant quotes == | |||
<blockquote>"Can a Communist, who is an internationalist, at the same time be a patriot? We hold that he not only can be but also must be." | |||
- Quotations from Mao Tse Tung, chapter 18. Patriotism and Internationalism | |||
"Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle" | |||
- Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto | |||
"That socialism had assumed patriotic and national form is not due to the opportunism of socialists and communist parties but was part and parcel to the meaning of socialism itself" | |||
Socialist Patriotism: America vs. America" by Infrared Collective<ref name=":0" /> | |||
"This begs the question: What was the actual relationship between socialists and patriotism historically? What becomes immediately clear is that the track record of the 19th and especially 20th centuries show that socialists and communists have consistently been patriotic and deeply attuned to the national realities of the countries they held from ... It is only in america and those under the influence of its empire where those under this way of american exceptionalism remain dominant on the left that socialists imagine they can elevate themselves above national realities and speak on behalf of an abstract working class uprooted and estranged from its particular and national instantiation." | |||
Socialist Patriotism: America vs. America" by Infrared Collective<ref name=":0" /></blockquote> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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