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.

Wait a minute, I banned you before for being a fascist shitheel

Welps, no need to hear anything else into the bin with you

Tell me you have no idea what mao is talking about while quoting mao lmfao

ACP is objectively filled with ground beef communists, they may look red on the outside but cut them open and it's just brown to the core.

Fascists love to misquote and deliberately misrepresent Mao.

Literally just laundering tailism as progressive.

Hahah, lemme tell you this... there's a difference between nationalism necessarily birthed,

under backdrop of oppressed masses of Imperialism

(eg. Vietnamese nationalism truly developed under France, with the destruction of local Vietnamese feudal economy to pave away for imperial capitalist exploitation of land and labor; to make plantations and industry, dependent on building the French imperial economy)

and one under the backdrop of 'oppressed' Americans wanting their share of the pie; stolen Indigenous land and African slaves

(eg. American nationalism, who wanted independence from Britain, mainly due to the British trying to restrict their land expansion, worries of the British restricting slavery, and overall British empire co-optation of settler-colonial political economy)

what they actually do

they post on social media

These opportunists, like many others, fail to educate the advanced masses while throwing re-appropriated bourgeois slogans all around for the sake of general popularity. We should understand the role nationalism plays and not merely claim “its a good tool for them to use against us, but its also a good tool for us.” We

We can be idealists on this site if we want, but if we're being realistic with ourselves, the socialism that's possible in the current American context is going to be socialism with burgerland characteristics