Much Ado About PATSOCS: Finding a Better Way to Talk About Working Class Patriotism

The Patsocs are coming, the Patsocs are coming!
There has been much fruitless discourse and claims of rising fascism among the keyboard proletarian vanguard about the problem of Social Patriotism. We got the original gang back together to talk about what the appropriate level for freaking out about it on the internet is.

There is no contradiction between patriotism and socialism
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/there-no-contradiction-between-patriotism-and-socialism

Is There a Place for Patriotism on the Left? 
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/patriotism-left-nationalism/

Democratic Socialism Must Be Internationalist
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism

In Defense of U.S. Proletarian Patriotism
https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/in-defense-of-us-proletarian-patriotism-a-comradely-response-to-danny-haiphongs-marxist-polemic-on-patriotic-socialism-by-kayla-popuchet

British Communism’s Patriotic Disease
https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/british-communisms-patriotic-disease

The Case for a Left Patriotism
https://www.thebellows.org/the-case-for-a-left-patriotism/

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