The Patsocs are coming, the Patsocs are coming!
There has been much fruitless discourse and claims of rising fascism among the keyboard proletarians of Twitter 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 socialismhttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/there-no-contradiction-between-patriotism-and-socialism

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

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

Democratic Socialism Must Be Internationalist

https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism

British Communism’s Patriotic Disease

https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/british-communisms-patriotic-disease

Is There a Place for Patriotism on the Left?

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/patriotism-left-nationalism/

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