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Detrumify yourself
(lemmy.wtf)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/20659375
Colleagues. I don't feel like having to publish 20 disclaimers here to clarify exactly what I mean. People who want to understand my message will understand them. You should not look for too many "double-bottoms" or "hidden messages" in them. Do you have a problem with the "superficiality" of my post.... so be it.
DETRUMPIFY YOURSELF Buy european products Travel european countries Vote pro european parties Defend european values Use european technology Use european opensource Invest in european companies
Borders are a mental construct. People should bond with their peers because they are human, not because of a national identity invented by those that constructed those borders for the purpose of division and for the purpose of making people not question why they are going into a war with other people at the whim of capital.
Nationalism is an excuse, if it were not for nationalism then the effort to invade Ukraine would have long collapsed (or not even gotten the opportunity to begin at all) and the people would see that it is easier and more survivable to unite against the few people pulling the strings than to unite as one "pure" army against another "pure" army of relatively similar size in comparison.
Nationalism will never work in our actual favor, it has been tried so many times and it will never work, it is so far detached from the truth. It is at best a necessary stepping stone when growing up in this system that one needs to move on from as soon as possible and not mistake for the truth.
Nationalism interested in Scotland is leaving Brexit and joining the EU. Nationalism without purpose is bad. Nationalism for economic advantage is bad. Nationalism against oppression is ok.
Nationalism does not help against oppression because you cannot use nationalism against capitalists as capitalism is not a nationality but the root cause of oppression itself.
Nationalism is a tool for the owning class, that is not itself affected by the circumstances that enable the becoming of nationalists and is simultaneously shielded from the fallout of nationalism that inevitably ensues, to further division between us humans and to give people an incentive to go to war against their brothers and sisters for them in their stead, and to spill their blood over a made up symbol that has no actual meaning.