Patriotism in a Brutally Violent, Imperial Process

The left should embrace patriotism by embracing the radical tradition of communist history, argues John Sutter. Embracing patriotism and waving the stars and stripes on the left will actually only alienate the colonized masses at home and countless victims of americanism abroad. America is an ongoing settler colonial process initiated by white supremicists and propertied aristocrats. It has drowned entire societies in blood, slaughtered our comrades, propped up fastious dictatorships on every continent,. And works to this day to put a violent end to any attempt by peoples anywhere in the world to build socialism. To wave the flag as a socialist, in myopinion, is really to spit in the face of