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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Wasn't Lenin the guy who said he was hoping Russia would lose the Great War because it would be better for the revolution?
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John Dewey was pitching an American nationalism that was uniquely multicultural back in 1916--and deploring the claims to Anglo-Saxon supremacy that had begun to percolate through the isolationist rhetoric. Relatedly, he thought national identity had to evolve to be viable.
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He was a smart guy!
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