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Patriotism is a subjective concept. There are patriots who completely disagree with each other but still have a similar level of devotion for their country. People supporting their countries is not exactly radical. In fact, it's very common everywhere but Lemmy because this place is filled with tankies.
Well from an anti-state perspective, supporting a country that commits radical acts such as monopoly of violence is by extension radical, but i think you meant that patriotism is widely spread, and that is relatively true, at least most people have patriotic "instincts" (even though in my experience, discussing and questioning their patriotism often reveals that they are patriotic by default and could have a different position if they reflected upon it).
I'd say tankies are also patriotic, just not for USA. Fatherland is a quite important concept in post-leninism forms of authoritarian communism. From my experience, it's much more common to find anti-patriotism in libertarian communism / anarchism than in despotic communism.
This view is flawed because it mislabels the state's monopoly on violence as inherently radical. In reality, this monopoly exists to prevent chaos by centralizing and regulating force. Calling it radical ignores the distinction between structured authority and unregulated violence. Supporting a state doesn’t mean endorsing oppression, it can mean recognizing the need for order over anarchy. The reason why humans have evolved to favor order over anarchy is because order provides stability, and this allows people to built up complex societies in relative safety.
Patriotism at it's core is just a sense of pride, and that's a universal emotion that everybody has. Everybody wants to feel like they belong to something greater. It gives us a feeling of nobility. All people share a feeling similar to patriotism, even if it's labeled as something else... even anarchists.
Lmao maybe for losers. I take pride in my own accomplishment. People who need to take pride in their country have to resort to external pride because they didn't do shit themselves