Also, I always wondered, do most people in China, Vietnam and other socialist countries identify as communist?

  • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know about the survey results so to speak, but since you’ve expressed interest in the relationship between patriotism and Communism, there’s a little I want to say about that

    The hegemony of the western world was mainly shaped by European colonialism. Yes it included British colonies, Spanish, Dutch, and so on, but it was on the whole a united project. United as white European men, and more explicitly united as Christians under the Doctrine of Discovery which laid out directions to respect the territorial claims of Christian countries only. To this day, the liberal democracies of those colonies cite the Doctrine in court to assert legal legitimacy

    The idea of an American, Brit, or Francester wanting to “finally put ourselves first” or “become great” is perverse. We’ve never stopped putting ourselves first. It’s arrogant enough of us westerners to treat western powers as though they were just like any country, much less to indignantly claim we haven’t taken enough for ourselves. It’s as though we committed home invasion, murdered half of the household and moved in, and are now talking to the remaining half about how we’ve decided to finally start standing up for ourself