#anti-nationalism

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

“Nationalism, teaches you to take pride in shit you haven't done, and hate people you’ve never met”

[storymaker14]

[punkass-diogenes]

This is good.

[autolenaphilia]

Selling tumblr users on ethnonationalism: an example

The screenshotted post above is the perfect example of how seemingly progressive language is used to sell ethnonationalism in the form of "ethnopluralism" which I've talked about before. This is a bog standard "the evil queer commies are trying to eradicate our vital religious and ethnic traditional identities" post.

And this is cloaked in pseudo-progressive language that compares socialist internationalism and its "desire for a non-exploitative, international socialist society" to imperialism and nazism. The ethnopluralist principle of "the right to difference",that “every culture has the right to preserve their own unique culture and tradition from the onslaught of global capitalist culture" is the underlying ideology of this post. And that is rebranded ethnonationalism.

And if you think i'm just being paranoid about this being nationalist nonsense, you can actually check their blog and find out from their pinned post that they are a zionist, and you know, zionism is a form of ethnonationalism.

[iisthepopeoffools]

"Israel is an illegitimate country" - as opposed to all those objectively existing countries that were established through the proper diplomatic channels rather than on the right of might.

[that-starlit-wanderer]

It's frustrating that so many leftists today are, if not nationalists themselves, then willing to make common cause with nationalists in pursuit of their goals.

I always think on the fact that in the 1970s support for Quebec nationalism was widespread on the left. Extremist Quebecois nationalist groups like the FLQ had ties to other radical leftist groups in North America and around the world, and were seen as being engaged in the same "revolutionary" struggle that other New Left groups of the era were engaged in. By comparison, you'd be hard-pressed to find many leftists today who support Quebec nationalists, who superficially at least have taken a hard turn towards right-wing culture politics.

The problem with this narrative of "Quebec nationalists changed" is that...they really haven't. Their primary goal, from the FLQ to the present, has always been the establishment of an independent state which would be a "homeland for the Quebecois people." A people who are, naturally, under existential threat, whether its from anglophones, "money and the ethnic vote," Americanization, or whatever the boogeyman of the day happens to be. The modern-day nationalists are just more honest (to some extent at least) than the nationalists of the 70s about what that really entails: that a homeland for a particular ethnic group will always necessarily make people who aren't members of that ethnic group at best second-class citizens, and at worst acceptable targets for violence and ethnic cleansing.

[nando161mando]

Pro-homosexual forces stay winning

[lilithism1848]

[demigoddessqueens]

[mequetrefis]

free him

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[imgonnagetyoubackk]

THE midnights era photo

[starlight-bread-blog]

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But it was Katara that he chose to invite.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But Azula knew to aim at Katara.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But the scene was romamtically coded.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But Katara needed to get to heal him.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But it was Katara who was with him in season finales.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But he needed to choose Katara over Azula.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But Shu needed to survive in this life.

"Zuko would take a lightning for anyone–"

But the writers deliberately chose Katara.

Inspired by @captain-konami-code 's "They were enemies"

[iisthepopeoffools]

The lesson of Israel to left-wing nationalists should be that the nationalism of the oppressed invariantly becomes the nationalism of the oppressor if they manage to seize power. Nationalism is inherently oppressive.

[samcats]

Anyways