The problem with current calls for progressive or even leftist nationalism is NOT the nationalism but that they are without content. Flag waving & statue building alone doesn't win points. The right's nationalism, by contrast, has content (xenophobia).
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The thing with patriotism (or, if we're honest, nationalism) is you can't just adopt it on rhetorical level or use it to teach edifying myths. To be meaningful it has to be attached to a national project, which can be malign (xenophobia) or benign (say, defeating fascism).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Do you see a difference between patriotism and nationalism, or is the former solely a euphemism for the latter?
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I honestly think they are synonyms. Attempts to draw a distinction (by Orwell and Lukacs among others) never seems persuasive to me. Patriotism is just high-toned nationalism.
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