Challenging compulsory patriotism -- on prime time!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 10 15:58:35 PST 2002


Kelley wrote:


>At 06:39 PM 2/10/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>>there was no challenge to the underlying dynamic that creates
>>>patriotism, in any event. it's just patriotism reborn in a way
>>>people on the left will find palatable.
>>
>>EVERYONE? How's that patriotic by any normal definition?
>
>key phrase: underlying dynamic.

I'd thought the underlying dynamic of patriotism is that one's fellow citizens take priority - and, usually, that We are better than Them. If it involves nationalism, it means excluding the Others from the Great Circle of Us. So doesn't EVERYONE kind of undermine that?

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list