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The Red Patriot Political Project, Attached to the American Project

The red patriot political project, attached to the american project, can only ever really end up functionally as liberalism. The best that a working class patriotism could possibly produce is something like a burney sanders campaign which abandons anti imperialist internationalism almost by definition. It's hard not look at lennon's critiques of economism and amiss the fact that we needed to raise consciousness above the level at which it currently existed. So there are clear reasons to believe that the job of communists is not just a sort of crass populism that would start with what the masses already believe and give them everything they want. I e for them to become conscious of capitalism as a global structure and

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