"There is a tale told of an inmate of a lunatic asylum who was asked by a visitor to the institution how he came to be there. “Well,” he replied, “I thought the people outside were mad, and they thought I was mad. They were in the majority, and, here I am.” This tale often occurs to my mind when I run up against things in our movement contrary to my own views of Socialism and the essentials of Socialist propaganda. I find myself in complete accord with the S.L.P. (of which I am proud to be a member) on all questions of policy and of discipline and of revolutionary procedure. When it comes down to holding our position as against an opponent, no matter how well equipped, I am not aware of any case in any country in which the comrades found fault with my defence or attack, or my exposition of our principles. And yet I have found in the party, speakers and writers, and comrades who professed to be neither, who held and gave expression to views on policy, and conceptions of Socialism with which I would not for a moment agree. And the thought occurs to me: Which of us is mad? To settle this question, I am here setting down some of the points on which I find myself in disagreement with numbers of the comrades, and hope to see in The Weekly People – the only one of our organs available for me – an earnest discussion thereon.
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Again, when touring this country in 1902, I met in Indianapolis an esteemed comrade who almost lost his temper with me because I expressed my belief in monogamic marriage, and because I said, as I still hold, that the tendency of civilisation is towards its perfection and completion, instead of towards its destruction. My comrade’s views, especially since the publication in The People of Bebel’s Women, are held by a very large number of members, but I hold, nevertheless, that they are wrong, and, furthermore, that such works and such publications are an excrescence upon the movement."
Link for Connolly's back and forth with De Leon regarding Wages, Marriage and Religion.
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Again, when touring this country in 1902, I met in Indianapolis an esteemed comrade who almost lost his temper with me because I expressed my belief in monogamic marriage, and because I said, as I still hold, that the tendency of civilisation is towards its perfection and completion, instead of towards its destruction. My comrade’s views, especially since the publication in The People of Bebel’s Women, are held by a very large number of members, but I hold, nevertheless, that they are wrong, and, furthermore, that such works and such publications are an excrescence upon the movement."
Link for Connolly's back and forth with De Leon regarding Wages, Marriage and Religion.
www.marxists.org
The Connolly-DeLeon Controversy (1904)
James Connolly, Daniel DeLeon: The Connolly-DeLeon Controversy (1904)
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'Triumph of Labour' 1878 cartoon about the nativist efforts of largely Irish-American labourers to restrict immigration from China.
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Irish Anti-Imperialist and Nationalist Economics.
Money was central to the Irish Revolution of 1916-1921. Its guerrilla warfare required guerilla finance.
However, cash-strapped revolutionaries still rejected a generous $20 million loan offer from Farson, Sons, & Co., a Wall Street firm.
Why?
Joseph Connolly, Irish envoy in America, wrote immediately after the loan offer warning of the "dangers of American finance" and the "evil" done in other small nations.
Harry Boland, another envoy in America, corroborated Connolly's message. He referenced "National City Bank" and the U.S. army collaborating to oppress small nations.
Michael Collins, the military leader of the Irish Revolution, replied noting his awareness.
The Farson loan was ignored and the Irish Free State issued a clear policy against reliance on foreign finance and for utilization of national finance.
🔗 twitter thread
🔗 Dissertation on American financial imperialism and its connection to the Irish revolutionaries
Money was central to the Irish Revolution of 1916-1921. Its guerrilla warfare required guerilla finance.
However, cash-strapped revolutionaries still rejected a generous $20 million loan offer from Farson, Sons, & Co., a Wall Street firm.
Why?
Joseph Connolly, Irish envoy in America, wrote immediately after the loan offer warning of the "dangers of American finance" and the "evil" done in other small nations.
Harry Boland, another envoy in America, corroborated Connolly's message. He referenced "National City Bank" and the U.S. army collaborating to oppress small nations.
Michael Collins, the military leader of the Irish Revolution, replied noting his awareness.
The Farson loan was ignored and the Irish Free State issued a clear policy against reliance on foreign finance and for utilization of national finance.
🔗 twitter thread
🔗 Dissertation on American financial imperialism and its connection to the Irish revolutionaries
Forwarded from Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
As yes, more foreign investment is needed in all this, of course.
Based on recent investment funding patterns, Ireland will be “hugely reliant” on foreign investment to meet these needs. “In particular, in scaling up from 20,000 homes per year to 45,000 homes per year, an extra €75bn is needed each decade, of which €70bn would come from international sources,” the report says.
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/nearly-50000-homes-a-year-required-to-meet-needs-irish-institutional-property-report-40744157.html
Based on recent investment funding patterns, Ireland will be “hugely reliant” on foreign investment to meet these needs. “In particular, in scaling up from 20,000 homes per year to 45,000 homes per year, an extra €75bn is needed each decade, of which €70bn would come from international sources,” the report says.
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/nearly-50000-homes-a-year-required-to-meet-needs-irish-institutional-property-report-40744157.html
independent
Nearly 50,000 homes a year required to meet needs – Irish Institutional Property report
Close to 50,000 homes will need to be built each year until at least 2050 if “housing stock is to reflect the country’s demographics.”
"That freedom and that security can only come as a result of complete absence of foreign domination. Freedom to control all its own resources is as essential to a community as to an individual. No individual can develop all his powers if he is even partially under the control of another, even if that other sincerely wishes him well. The powers of the individual can only be developed properly when he has to bear the responsibility of all his own actions, to suffer for his mistakes, and to profit by his achievements."
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You can see here from the report, there's always going to be more migrants entering than the natural increase in their projections into the future (why do they assume Irish birth rates wont increase and for migration to decrease? do they want that? we know answer ofc)
How do they expect to ever meet this demand of 50k houses a year - they couldn't even do 25k a year - when they just keep adding more and more migrants into the population? What is going to happen to the Irish landscape? How bad is the urban sprawl going to be? Where are the gay ''environmentalist'' Green idiots on this matter?
How do they expect to ever meet this demand of 50k houses a year - they couldn't even do 25k a year - when they just keep adding more and more migrants into the population? What is going to happen to the Irish landscape? How bad is the urban sprawl going to be? Where are the gay ''environmentalist'' Green idiots on this matter?
"We have the most beautiful climate in the world, a climate which a wise national government could even improve by restoring the forests that once covered the island and broke the rainfall that comes in from the Atlantic ocean. We have a lively, quick minded, intelligent people, rich in soft kindliness, and graced with womanly beauty and manly vigour.
For centuries this people have been treated as outcasts in their own land, shut out from every chance of developing its resources, and ruled by an insolent class of land thieves and its followers."
For centuries this people have been treated as outcasts in their own land, shut out from every chance of developing its resources, and ruled by an insolent class of land thieves and its followers."
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https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2021/10/15/eat-the-bugs-paddy-does-the-irish-meat-industry-have-a-future
Eat the Bugs Paddy! Does the Irish Meat Industry Have a Future?
Eat the Bugs Paddy! Does the Irish Meat Industry Have a Future?
The Burkean
Eat the Bugs Paddy: Does the Irish Meat Industry Have a Future? | The Burkean
The centrality played by the cow in Irish life is hard to ignore. From our nation’s mythological cradle, right up to contemporary politics, our bovine friends have remained silent sentinels over Irish history. With Ireland lacking major mineral deposits to…
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Grease peddler Pat McDonagh calls Irish lazy, imports cheap compliant overseas labour to staff fryers.
Make sure to never buy from SuperValu from their BS earlier in the year and now add SuperMacs to that list
RichardOClear1
Make sure to never buy from SuperValu from their BS earlier in the year and now add SuperMacs to that list
RichardOClear1
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Open Border fanatics are now saying migrant scab labour is bad
"Who is to blame? What determines the rate of wages? The competition among workers for employment... and owing to this fact the Irish employer is able to take advantage of the helplessness of his poorer fellow-countrymen and compel them to work for less...
In all private employment in Ireland the same state of matters prevails... the employing class in Ireland... take advantage of the crowded state of the labour market and use it to depress the wages of their workers..."
- James Connolly, Patriotism and Labour (1897)
In all private employment in Ireland the same state of matters prevails... the employing class in Ireland... take advantage of the crowded state of the labour market and use it to depress the wages of their workers..."
- James Connolly, Patriotism and Labour (1897)
"Obedient mercenaries of capital", the term Karl Marx used to describe immigrant scab labourers who willingly took positions in another country, at the request of capitalist employers, in order to undermine the wages and conditions of that country's native workers.
Despite Marx's overall goal being the eradication of nations and borders, even he understood that while living under capitalism there are certain realities that cannot be ignored or theorized away. The issues of the supply/demand of labour and immigration were, and still are, problems that working class people must contend with.
Contrary to what today's Left advocate (open borders even though it harms the workers), Marx believed it was "a point of honour" that foreign workers must refuse to take jobs in other countries, "to defend the common interests of their class and will not become obedient mercenaries of capital in its struggle against labour."
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Despite Marx's overall goal being the eradication of nations and borders, even he understood that while living under capitalism there are certain realities that cannot be ignored or theorized away. The issues of the supply/demand of labour and immigration were, and still are, problems that working class people must contend with.
Contrary to what today's Left advocate (open borders even though it harms the workers), Marx believed it was "a point of honour" that foreign workers must refuse to take jobs in other countries, "to defend the common interests of their class and will not become obedient mercenaries of capital in its struggle against labour."
Source
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Over 3,000 likes celebrating that Irish kids are becoming minorities in their own classrooms
The Primary School Teachers being pumped into Ireland are cause for concern, probably best home-schooling or finding a non-pozzed school
https://twitter.com/muinteoirjana/status/1456677161830596621
The Primary School Teachers being pumped into Ireland are cause for concern, probably best home-schooling or finding a non-pozzed school
https://twitter.com/muinteoirjana/status/1456677161830596621