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End of Year Q&A Part 1
🕑 Added 2021-12-15 16:04:18 +0000 UTCWe talk about the recent British vote to implement vaccine passes, the Trotsky vs Stalin debate, "patriotic socialism" and more.
Mentioned in the show: https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1967/intromet/ch01.htm
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Irish Partizan
I would regard myself as a 'patriotic socialist' i.e. Irish Republican Socialist. I don't think it should be dismissed out of hand. It does have its merits especially when it comes to national liberation movements. I see nothing wrong being a patriot and a socialist at the same time.
CJ
I don't know how I forgot this: The idea of patriotic socialism only makes sense in contrast to the wilder elements of Third Worldism and Malthusianism, both of which are rampant in the reactionary left in the USA, at least online. This is the context of the term.
