Every Amerikan KKKomrade should know: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/roots-revisionism/chapter-15.pdf
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"The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements." -Mao Tse Tung "Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership" (June 1, 1943), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 118.
Patriotism is a tool Communists can use to bring the backwards masses forward. One doesn't even need to feel the patriotism themselves to see the gains in class consciousness amongst the conservative members of the working class.
You don't have to like the ACP, but it's undialectical to ignore what they actually do
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
What they actually do is reheat LaRouchite fascism in the microwave and try to sell it to a new generation.
Insane that thinking socalist should be ironically be pro-america to...capture the most disloyal and unrevolutionary sections of the american populace (hog posturing as humble countryfolk).
Why black americans, latinos and native americans would regard america with such high regard that it warrants socialists adopting a false ideal of "america", is something that alludes me. Because Mao or Vietnam did it? newsflash the us is not vietnam or 1930s china.