Every Amerikan KKKomrade should know: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/roots-revisionism/chapter-15.pdf
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"The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements." -Mao Tse Tung "Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership" (June 1, 1943), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 118.
Patriotism is a tool Communists can use to bring the backwards masses forward. One doesn't even need to feel the patriotism themselves to see the gains in class consciousness amongst the conservative members of the working class.
You don't have to like the ACP, but it's undialectical to ignore what they actually do
Hahah, lemme tell you this... there's a difference between nationalism necessarily birthed,
under backdrop of oppressed masses of Imperialism
(eg. Vietnamese nationalism truly developed under France, with the destruction of local Vietnamese feudal economy to pave away for imperial capitalist exploitation of land and labor; to make plantations and industry, dependent on building the French imperial economy)
and one under the backdrop of 'oppressed' Americans wanting their share of the pie; stolen Indigenous land and African slaves
(eg. American nationalism, who wanted independence from Britain, mainly due to the British trying to restrict their land expansion, worries of the British restricting slavery, and overall British empire co-optation of settler-colonial political economy)
I understand and agree with you
But I don't just pay attention to what a group says, I care about material impact
Organizing labor against the American bourgeois weakens the hold of the American bourgeois, which in turn is good for the nations oppressed by the empire