>In Utopias Elsewhere, Theodore Dalrymple attends the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in North Korea. He observes that only two delegations march without their national flags:
>No other flag provokes such visceral hostility among leftists. Even the American flag, and by extension American icons, can be reinterpreted through a socialist lens, as with the Lincoln Battalion. But the Union Jack alone resists appropriation.