The Left Can’t Cede Patriotism to the Right https://jacobin.com/2024/09/patriotism-left-wing-nationalist-politics Wars, geopolitical tensions, crimes against humanity, and totalitarian regimes as well as anti-colonial uprisings, minority rights, and societies unified toward goals of freedom and emancipation — nationalism is almost always present behind the key issues of modernity.
Wars, geopolitical tensions, crimes against humanity, and totalitarian regimes as well as anti-colonial uprisings, minority rights, and societies unified toward goals of freedom and emancipation — nationalism is almost always present behind the key issues of modernity.-( Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman )
the Left cannot simply ignore the existence of national identities. These identities are integral elements of the political and social landscape in which the Left operates and, for the foreseeable future, they do not appear to be diminishing in importance. Thus, calls for the Left to reject national identity are a dead end and risk distancing it from its own popular traditions.
Gramsci - nazionale-popolare - related it to cultural productions: literary or artistic works that express the distinctive characteristics of national culture and are recognized as representative by the popular classes. Today we use the term “national-popular” in a more general sense to refer to all those cultural, aesthetic, behavioral, and habitual traits widespread among the common people of a particular country.