Nationalism is obviously a problem, and it leads to non-cooperation, xenophobia, and close mindedness. It leads people to take pride in things that they had no part in, it creates needless disputes, wars, all of that.
So what's the cure? How do we get people to start seeing people from out outside lines drawn on a map as human beings?
Also, what's causing this? Why are people so god damned in love with this division within our species? Am I taking crazy pills? Am I the only one who thinks that saying "fuck those Syrians/Mexicans/Iranians etc." is crazy?
Nationalism cannot be defeated because it's built upon the strongest emotion of all, nostalgia.
People get mad when their cities/hometown where they lived, where they had their childhood become shittier due to immigrants.
Elijah Perez
Catholicism
Nathaniel Miller
Socialism is bound up with internationalism and communism can only be a world thing. Anyone who tells you different is ignorant or a charlatan.
I would say that clearly nationalism can be used to cooperative ends, but the cooperation ends at the border.
TBH I have no idea OP and Slavoj ZIzek, celebrity philosopher of leftypol thinks actually we should try to just keep respectful distance of 'others' instead of doing the liberal thing of really embracing people.
I think if a couple countries can achieve socialism, an internationalist perspective can win out among them and a fundamental change between socialism and communism will be the effective break down of borders, the realization of the liberal dream of coming to terms with ethnic/religious differences, etc. or else I don't see how we can have global communism
Asher Brown
They must realize that the nation-state is a relatively recent invention in history and that, like all other previous forms of existence, it shall be overcome.
Obviously not everyone is capable of this realization, those people can listen to their betters and be educated. But anyone who is remotely intelligent should understand how the dialectics of history function.
This is a decent book that examines the recent invention of many things that we find 'traditional' like nations:
You mean the same home towns where working people have been exploited for years, where there are starving children next to stores full of food and homeless people next to homes with for sale signs and broken infrastructure where the masses live that look like they've been bombed in a war while the rich parts of town are more pristine than a bleached asshole?
Matthew Evans
I'm sorry you live in a shitty hometown, but even those shitty hometowns now get shittier with immigrants.
Jordan Diaz
Same thing that will also keep sexism at bay–direct, practical day to day struggle against the concrete problems presented by capital along with a widespread consciousness of capital's concealed peculiarity.
Chase Walker
Romanticism was a mistake.
Hunter Edwards
It's certainly going to not be ok when Ahmed kills Tony and rapes some women in the way.
