From What to Why on the Trump Proletarian Narrative ~~ PAUL STREET

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/from-what-to-why-on-the-trump-proletarian-narrative/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Collective Statement of Total Objection to Military service

https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/xupoluto-tagma-collective-statement-of-total-objection-to-military-service

This declaration is a collective public statement of total objection to military service. What does this mean? It means that we refuse to enlist to the army. We want to make our objection publicly, under our own names, not only because we do not want to hide, but because we also want to encourage others to declare their objection. It means that we are not looking for individual solutions for each one of us separately, but we are seeking ways of collectively responding to the problems that the capitalist system produces. It also means that we are not merely trying to avoid military service, but we want to oppose the institution of the military as a whole – what it represents, protects and reproduces.

Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty ~~ Emma Goldman

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1911/patriotism.htm

WHAT is patriotism? Is it love of one’s birthplace, the place of childhood’s recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations ? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one “an eye should be,” piercing the very depths of our little souls? Is it the place where we would listen to the music of the birds, and long to have wings to fly, even as they, to distant lands? Or the place where we would sit at mother’s knee, enraptured by wonderful tales of great deeds and conquests ? In short, is it love for the spot, every inch representing dear and precious recollections of a happy, joyous, and playful childhood?

If that were patriotism, few American men of today could be called upon to be patriotic, since the place of play has been turned into factory, mill, and mine, while deafening sounds of machinery have replaced the music of the birds. Nor can we longer hear the tales of great deeds, for the stories our mothers tell today are but those of sorrow, tears, and grief.

Marx on Immigration ~~David L. Wilson

https://monthlyreview.org/2017/02/01/marx-on-immigration/

Nations, Nationalism, War and Class Struggle

A few related pieces on the subject of nations, nationalism, war and class struggle.

In Whose War Shall We Fight ~~ E. Debs

and selected quotes on the subject by Red Robbo