This whole piece is an example of how Connolly's socialism did not simply reduce all workers of the world into one indistinct unit based on class. He did not believe that the class struggle necessitated the denial of ethnic distinction or for a socialist to become a deracinated individual for the sake of a misinterpretation of internationalism.

This is the issue we are facing today. "Solidarity" with the working class of other nations being used to justify the erosion of national boundaries and the removal of the natural identity of diverse groups of peoples. Viewing the world solely through the lens of class struggle destroys the very idea of diversity by turning separate groups into one nondescript mass, ironically exactly what liberal capitalism also does.

"...the uncompromising attitude of the Dublin Socialists on the national question made it clear that Socialism meant on the political side of Ireland an absolute revolutionary change which would make the people of Ireland complete rulers of their own country, as the economic change would thus logically make them owners of the country they would politically rule.

In other words, the Socialists of Ireland had to recognise that the world for the workers can only be realised by the people of each country seizing upon their own country and wresting it by one means or another from the hands of the present rulers or proprietors and restoring it with all its powers and potentialities to the people who inhabit it and labour upon it."

#nationalism #nation #country #irishpeople

This quote, taken from Socialism in Ireland (1908), compliments the previous article and plainly states that Connolly's conception of socialism did not interfere with the separation of individual nations, but rather it could only work within distinct countries for the people of those countries.

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"What is the struggle today? What is this process that we're all witnessing? What is it that the elites are currently carrying out across the world in the form of globalisation and neo-liberalism?

This is a struggle of Capitalist versus Traditionalist. This is the demiurge of Capital endlessly expanding, overcoming barriers of traditional morality, traditional barriers to profit and commodifying everything, and turning the world into one universal marketplace. And the footsoldiers in that are the bourgeois anarchists that they use to attack defenders of tradition, that they use to attack defenders of nations...

...the Left has been swallowed up by Liberalism and has become the battering ram for elites and for Big Capital to push through positive liberalism over negative liberalism, to push through the the social agenda of Woke Capital and to destroy barriers to profit, and barriers to commodification, and to the ideal of one global, universal market where everyone is an interchangeable cog, everyone is an identityless consumer, that abandons his traditional identity and takes up a consumer identity...

...the barrier to this are the people who uphold traditional identities which can't be commodified, and that is Traditionalists and Nationalists, and somehow for all their material analysis of Capitalism, Leftists can't see this."

- Keith Woods


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"I believe the Gaelic movement has great promise of life in it, but that promise will only be properly fulfilled when it naturally works its way into the life of the nation, side by side with every other agency making for a regenerated people.

The chief enemy of a Celtic revival today is the crushing force of capitalism which irresistibly destroys all national or racial characteristics"

#celtic #gaelic

Taken from The Language Movement (1898).

As with Keith Woods' analysis of the situation, Connolly understood that the destruction of distinct identities is a necessity for the expansion of capitalism. With this in mind, any reader of his work would have to be delusional or deliberately self-deceiving to arrive at the conclusion that Connolly would support what is currently happening to Ireland under neo-liberalism, which the modern Left do while claiming to oppose the system.

Take a look at Based James Connolly (@BasedConnolly): https://twitter.com/BasedConnolly?s=09

"When you talk of freeing Ireland, do you only mean the chemical elements which compose the soil of Ireland? Or is it the Irish people you mean? "

#irishpeople #soul #chemical #elements #Ireland