According to The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx, "the supremacy of the proletariat will efface all national distinctions." Communists, therefore, will take part in a national struggle only as a matter of tactics . Logically, nationality can be for them only a pretence, for nationality supposes the possession of an immortal soul. If the Communist State grants entire lingual autonomy it emphatically does not recognise cultural autonomy and liberty. The national cultures are allowed to remain national in form, but they must be proletarian in content. Little by little the logic of materialism will tend to wipe out national ideas, but there will come a reaction against this as against the other anti-human elements of Marxism.
That the acceptance of Marxism means logically the annihilation of nationality should be always kept in view when we read appeals to James Connolly's nationalism. Connolly came under the influence of Daniel de Leon, one of the Jews engaged in the task of harnessing the workers of the world to the chariot of Karl Marx's Neo-Messianism. Needless to say, James Connolly did not recognise the implications of Marx's ideas. The leading article of The Worker's Republic, 29th January, 1916, in which he said that he "accepted the family as the true type of human society," and insisted upon the fundamental agreement between his own views and those expressed by Father Laurence in the Trades Hall a few days before, is ample proof of this fact. As James Connolly never had the chance of studying the philosophy or rather the theology of history from the point of view of the Mystical Body of Christ, he could not fully grasp that the one hope of realization of that solidarity of the members of a nation, about which he spoke so touchingly in the leading article already quoted, was through the Mystical Body. Neither was he aware that the naturalistic revolutionary attack on the Mystical Body which began in 1789 is being pushed forward everywhere, now by Communism, now by Masonry, in the attempt to wipe out our Lord and His Church once and for all. Would James Connolly knowingly consent to have his country serve as a mere pawn in the Marxian effort for Jewish world-domination?
That the acceptance of Marxism means logically the annihilation of nationality should be always kept in view when we read appeals to James Connolly's nationalism. Connolly came under the influence of Daniel de Leon, one of the Jews engaged in the task of harnessing the workers of the world to the chariot of Karl Marx's Neo-Messianism. Needless to say, James Connolly did not recognise the implications of Marx's ideas. The leading article of The Worker's Republic, 29th January, 1916, in which he said that he "accepted the family as the true type of human society," and insisted upon the fundamental agreement between his own views and those expressed by Father Laurence in the Trades Hall a few days before, is ample proof of this fact. As James Connolly never had the chance of studying the philosophy or rather the theology of history from the point of view of the Mystical Body of Christ, he could not fully grasp that the one hope of realization of that solidarity of the members of a nation, about which he spoke so touchingly in the leading article already quoted, was through the Mystical Body. Neither was he aware that the naturalistic revolutionary attack on the Mystical Body which began in 1789 is being pushed forward everywhere, now by Communism, now by Masonry, in the attempt to wipe out our Lord and His Church once and for all. Would James Connolly knowingly consent to have his country serve as a mere pawn in the Marxian effort for Jewish world-domination?
David Goldstein was an American Christian Apologist who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and founded the Catholic Campaigners for Christ in the early 1900s. Goldstein was also a former organizer for the Socialist Labor Party of America who later became disenchanted with Marxism and worked against the spread of Socialism in the United States, due to the irreligious & immoral implications of a Marxist society. Goldstein believed strongly in family values which conflicted with Marx's critique of family/marriage. As a result, he and his allies resigned from the Socialist movement and became a fervent anti-Marxist.
The following is a chapter from his autobiography dedicated to his dealings with Irish socialists, including a large section about James Connolly, and the moral and racial characteristics he noted causing issues with the Irish becoming doctrinaire Marxists. This is a fascinating first hand description of the Irish reconciling their socialism with their inherent nationalism.
The following is a chapter from his autobiography dedicated to his dealings with Irish socialists, including a large section about James Connolly, and the moral and racial characteristics he noted causing issues with the Irish becoming doctrinaire Marxists. This is a fascinating first hand description of the Irish reconciling their socialism with their inherent nationalism.
A few interesting points to highlight, but the whole thing is well worth a read.
- [The Irish] "have also the strength of character that keeps their heads from being filled with the clap-trap of the Red Irish. "They have, as a race, a moral sense so highly developed," said I, " that even the unlettered among them, generally speaking, have hearts unpolluted by those Socialist immoralities that logically flow from the application of Marxianism to the conduct of man."
- "...it riled, the Lehanes, Larkins, Connollys, Gurley Flynns and other Hibernians to have a man with a Yiddisher name tell them that socialism is the deadly enemy of things Catholic, and to do so while speaking under Catholic auspices."
- The Irish Socialists were, "enmeshed in something foreign to their inheritance."
- "Connolly had taken Marxian Socialism and whittled it down to his shillalah proportions. This he did by cutting out its anti-God and free-family philosophy, what he called its excrescences."
- "James Connolly, who had come from Ireland full of enthusiasm and ready to rally the Irish for socialism, finally came to the end of his socialistic tether. He was taught something in our country that all too many sincere Socialists have yet to learn: It is what I have said a dozen times already, that socialism is something more than a political and economic movement in the superficial sense of the term, that it's economics mean a revolution in every department of human activity."
- Connolly, "dealt with Socialism in the same manner as the man who separated water into its component parts, oxygen and hydrogen, consuming the oxygen and imagining he was drinking water. Connolly separated the oxygen of socialism -- its economics -- from the hydrogen of socialism -- it's Marxian philosophy -- and imagined he had real socialism."
- "To James Connolly was due the organisation of this racial group into the Irish Socialist Fellowship. Like Connolly, it held Socialism to be economic and nothing but economic...Therefore it adopted the following resolutions...
Socialism as we hold it is not synonymous with atheism...
...does not advocate 'free love,' the abolition of parental authority, or of marriage, or the destruction of the family.
... is purely and absolutely an economic theory...
... We emphatically repudiate the attempt of any individual or publication to identify the Socialist movement with the dissemination of agnosticism, atheism, race suicide, free love, dietetics, ideas concerning marriage, etc."
- In 1921 Goldstein was worried about being accused of "connecting the Irish with Lenin, which would have been an offense."
I'll do a few more summary points later.
- [The Irish] "have also the strength of character that keeps their heads from being filled with the clap-trap of the Red Irish. "They have, as a race, a moral sense so highly developed," said I, " that even the unlettered among them, generally speaking, have hearts unpolluted by those Socialist immoralities that logically flow from the application of Marxianism to the conduct of man."
- "...it riled, the Lehanes, Larkins, Connollys, Gurley Flynns and other Hibernians to have a man with a Yiddisher name tell them that socialism is the deadly enemy of things Catholic, and to do so while speaking under Catholic auspices."
- The Irish Socialists were, "enmeshed in something foreign to their inheritance."
- "Connolly had taken Marxian Socialism and whittled it down to his shillalah proportions. This he did by cutting out its anti-God and free-family philosophy, what he called its excrescences."
- "James Connolly, who had come from Ireland full of enthusiasm and ready to rally the Irish for socialism, finally came to the end of his socialistic tether. He was taught something in our country that all too many sincere Socialists have yet to learn: It is what I have said a dozen times already, that socialism is something more than a political and economic movement in the superficial sense of the term, that it's economics mean a revolution in every department of human activity."
- Connolly, "dealt with Socialism in the same manner as the man who separated water into its component parts, oxygen and hydrogen, consuming the oxygen and imagining he was drinking water. Connolly separated the oxygen of socialism -- its economics -- from the hydrogen of socialism -- it's Marxian philosophy -- and imagined he had real socialism."
- "To James Connolly was due the organisation of this racial group into the Irish Socialist Fellowship. Like Connolly, it held Socialism to be economic and nothing but economic...Therefore it adopted the following resolutions...
Socialism as we hold it is not synonymous with atheism...
...does not advocate 'free love,' the abolition of parental authority, or of marriage, or the destruction of the family.
... is purely and absolutely an economic theory...
... We emphatically repudiate the attempt of any individual or publication to identify the Socialist movement with the dissemination of agnosticism, atheism, race suicide, free love, dietetics, ideas concerning marriage, etc."
- In 1921 Goldstein was worried about being accused of "connecting the Irish with Lenin, which would have been an offense."
I'll do a few more summary points later.
A few more interesting points to highlight from the above chapter:
- " 'The James Connolly Literary Society' leads one to believe that you seek to attract Irishmen to the cause for which the martyrs of the Dublin Easter Day Rebellion gave their lives, which is certainly not the cause of socialism."
- Connolly "was given his last chance to proclaim to the world the motive of his activity, neither directly nor indirectly did he refer to Socialism. But rather, Mr. Connolly clearly set forth his burning desire to rehabilitate Ireland as a nation."
- "It was, no doubt, providential that this brave man, who would have laid down his life for the socialism he held to be socialism, sacrificed his life for the independence of his native land. "
Goldstein, a contemporary of Connolly and a man intimately aware of the socialist movement in America during his time there confirms what we have been saying is obvious for all to see;
James Connolly was a socialist, but of his own version of socialism.
- " 'The James Connolly Literary Society' leads one to believe that you seek to attract Irishmen to the cause for which the martyrs of the Dublin Easter Day Rebellion gave their lives, which is certainly not the cause of socialism."
- Connolly "was given his last chance to proclaim to the world the motive of his activity, neither directly nor indirectly did he refer to Socialism. But rather, Mr. Connolly clearly set forth his burning desire to rehabilitate Ireland as a nation."
- "It was, no doubt, providential that this brave man, who would have laid down his life for the socialism he held to be socialism, sacrificed his life for the independence of his native land. "
Goldstein, a contemporary of Connolly and a man intimately aware of the socialist movement in America during his time there confirms what we have been saying is obvious for all to see;
James Connolly was a socialist, but of his own version of socialism.