Thesis: America is a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the world.
Antithesis: America is a white supremacist settler colonial state that cannot be redeemed, only dismantled.
Synthesis: "America" is an empty signifier whose political meaning is being fought over each and every day.
Joel S.
“The Left needs to rediscover its patriotism” is corporate centrist speak for abandon any critique of white supremacist, patriarchal, colonist capitalism and embrace liberal mythologies that run cover for authoritarian exploitation here and around the world.
In other words, stop being leftists.
