What's laudable about being patriotic?
What country would you feel patriotic in?
None. I don't care about that nonsense.
When it becomes impossible to tell the differance between real Antifa and parody Antifa:
https://twitter.com/AntifaBoston/status/898958986824777728
BTW, since you're calling yourself Jacobin, you do understand that the Jacobins viewed themselves as extremely patriotic? Have you read the lyrics of the Marsellaise?
They were also largely representatives of a bourgeois movement. Yes, I know. I made this username a while ago when my politics were a bit less leftwing.
To be honest, the Jacobins were a very diverse movement, and if most of them were bourgeois, that didn't prevent them from being the vanguard of the
Révolution's most radical advancements. Patriotism was, at the time where France was the only revolutionary country in Europe, something that had a different significance than today. Not that it makes it a bad thing today... Did you know that the Marseillaise was widely sung by all the revolutionaries in Russia, and it was even the USSR's first anthem ? The core idea of Patriotism is to put
la Patrie (Homeland, or Fatherland) above the personal interests of the elite (yesterday the nobility, today the bankers). The Jacobins often call themselves Patriots for this reason, and the rallying cry of the young Republic was
La Patrie est en danger, i.e. the Homeland is in danger.
Sorry for getting off-topic but this is a subject that matters for me!
