In light of the English behaving like racists and demanding that foreigners not murder their children, its time to revisit language.
Bonus article about the Irish being replaced and a JQ in one
A country is a bit of land. A nation is a group of people. And a State is the body that governs a nation that lives in a country. These words are not synonyms! Democracy is rule of the people, ie the nation. Without nationalism, democracy is, by definition, a form of tyranny. If the nation (that is to say the people) is not in charge, then they are slaves to the state. If foreigners are given equal preference to nationals then the State is merely a tyrannical body the runs the country (a bit of land) as an economic block. The worst tyrants of the middle ages and the ancient period dindn't even try this.
Somewhat related to your title that speaks to the level of political knowledge of some normies.
A friend said that communists are right wing, it was in the context of EU elections. His logic was that right wing are nationalists and since communists are all about the state and state and nation are synonyms it means that communism is right-wing.
As context, he was serious, we were not drinking or smoking weed at the time.
Horseshoe theory only exists because of how woefully inadequate a single axis left vs. right spectrum is at describing possible political positions. Even the two axis compass falls short. The best I've seen so far is a three axis triangle, with a smaller triangle inside showing the current Overton window; but that's probably too complicated for normies to grok, since they're all trapped in a false dichotomy.
I agree in part but for this particular discussion he was just wrong. Nation and state are not the same, communism how I see it is anti-nationalist. Hence why communists destroy the national identity, art and architecture. After all communism in itself is globalist in scope.
Nationalism is not left or right, there are both left and right-wing nationalist parties, the reasons that we consider nationalism as being on the right is because we got brainwashed in to thinking nazis are right-wing and since is hard to sell socialism as right-wing they had to say that the nationalist part is what makes them right-wing.
That and because communism is anti-nationalist while being extreme left.
Communism is necessarily globalist because it cannot abide the existence of capitalism anywhere else. Everywhere must be communist for communism to thrive, although tyranny will still be required.
Nationalism is necessarily fascist because the good of the nation eventually collides with - and must supersede - the interests of the corporations. Nationalism must override corporatism.
There are implied values inherent to almost every economic system, and those values generate inevitable consequences.