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== Quotes == | == Quotes == | ||
The below quotes illustrate the Communist position on what is often referred to as the "national question". These quotes, taken from a wide range of political perspectives, including some people we have serious disagreements with (such as those of Emma Goldman or Nikita Khrushchev), touch on many aspects of the national question. Nominally, these quotes address the following topics: 1) patriotism and its application by both [[proletariat|proletarians]] and the [[bourgeoisie]]; 2) historical nihilism (revisionism and ignorance of world-history); 3) superpatriotism (national chauvinism, etc) and anti-patriotism | The below quotes illustrate the Communist position on what is often referred to as the "national question". These quotes, taken from a wide range of political perspectives, including some people we have serious disagreements with (such as those of Emma Goldman or Nikita Khrushchev), touch on many aspects of the national question. Nominally, these quotes address the following topics: 1) patriotism and its application by both [[proletariat|proletarians]] and the [[bourgeoisie]]; 2) [[historical nihilism]] ([[revisionism]] and ignorance of [[world-history]]); 3) superpatriotism (national [[chauvinism]], etc) and anti-patriotism; 4) the contradiction between the [[state]] as popular [[sovereignty]] vs the state as unpopular or corrupt sovereignty; 5) the contradiction between nationalism and internationalism ; and finally, 6) American socialist patriotism in particular, and socialist recognition of America's revolutionary and working-class history. | ||
<blockquote>''“The government of the United States represents, as its army also does, the finances of the United States. But these finances do not represent the North American people; they represent a small group of financiers, the owners of all the big enterprises… who also exploit the North American people. Clearly they do not exploit them in the same manner that they exploit us, the human beings of inferior races… for we have not had the good fortune of being born from blood, Anglo-Saxon parents. But they do exploit and divide them, they too are divided into black and whites, and they too are divided into men and women, union and non-union, employed and unemployed.” - Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara'' | |||
''"The U.S. flag is your flag, you cannot allow the U.S. ruling class to own the flag. The working class of the U.S. must fight for the flag and once socialism is established it is up to the workers to decide what they want to do with flag and the U.S. as it exists." - (Fidel Castro, Addressing a group of students who did not want to associate with their flag while people from other countries sat next to theirs)'' | ''"The U.S. flag is your flag, you cannot allow the U.S. ruling class to own the flag. The working class of the U.S. must fight for the flag and once socialism is established it is up to the workers to decide what they want to do with flag and the U.S. as it exists." - (Fidel Castro, Addressing a group of students who did not want to associate with their flag while people from other countries sat next to theirs)'' | ||