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)
But I don’t just pay attention to what a group says, I care about material impact
Organizing labor against the American bourgeois weakens the hold of the American bourgeois, which in turn is good for the nations oppressed by the empire
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)
One of the most eye opening things was reading Zinn and seeing Britain, the OG great Satan, tell the settlers “that’s evil, even for me.”
Rightfully so imo, the US has committed genocide and slavery on a massive scale and is actively aiding a genocide as we speak
I understand and agree with you
But I don’t just pay attention to what a group says, I care about material impact
Organizing labor against the American bourgeois weakens the hold of the American bourgeois, which in turn is good for the nations oppressed by the empire