"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


https://youtu.be/151aXRbavdA

"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

"As long as it was a question of Celt versus Saxon in Ireland the Celt (considering the enormous odds against him) held his own fairly well for six hundred years, without much deterioration in his national character – held his own so well that one hundred years ago many districts were as un-English as at the Norman Invasion.

But with the advent of capitalism all that was changed; the cheapness of its wares opened a way for English capitalism into districts where the political power of England had only excited aversion; the use of the English product paved the way for the use of the English speech, which in its turn made possible the debasing floods of cheap literary garbage.

Thus capitalism has done more in one hundred years to corrupt the Celt, and destroy his spirituality, than the previous six hundred were able to accomplish."

#celtic #norman

"...we [Socialist Republicans] cannot work up any enthusiasm for things spiritual while lacking things material, and we cannot forget that there are thousands of our brother and sister Celts so poor to-day that if they could barter their spiritual inheritance for a loaf of bread and a ‘rasher’ it would be a profitable exchange."

#celtic #family

These quotes are taken from Home Thrusts (1900).

This is a polemic against "every public speaker who finds himself too densely destitute of the faintest traces of originality to evoke the applause of his audience, or is too ignorant of the question under discussion to speak even tolerably upon it, falls back as a last and never failing resort upon an appeal to the spiritual inheritance of the Celt." In other words, opportunistic and superficial use of our heritage and identity in order to gain easy support for unrelated causes.

The quotes I have taken are Connolly's analysis that Capitalism is the most corrosive factor in the destruction of "the spiritual inheritance of the Celt", i.e. our distinct identity and character.

This is consistent with another recently posted quote:

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