The Left are nothing but puppets of capitalism

"The stronger I am in my affection for national tradition, literature, language, and sympathies, the more firmly rooted I am in my opposition to that capitalist class which in its soulless lust for power and gold would bray the nations as in a mortar."

- James Connolly

A Continental Revolution (1914)

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2022/01/13/did-the-irish-invent-bolshevism-aodh-de-blacams-towards-the-republic Did the Irish Invent Bolshevism? Aodh de Blácam’s Gaelic Socialism

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Erin's Hope, James Connolly. 1897

No matter what may be the moral character of the parent, let us at least save the helpless children of our race from physical and mental degeneracy, and save our teachers from the impossible task of forcing education upon a child whose brain is enfeebled by the starvation of its body.

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Today, the Cork Fenian Society will host a commemoration to mark the 200th anniversary of Cath Chéim an Fhia (Battle of Keimaneigh), a battle between Irish tenant farmers – organized in secret mainly agrarian reform societies, known chiefly as The Whiteboys and The Rockites – against the British militia in 1822.

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"National liberty, personal liberty, social security all gone; the country ruled from its highest down to its meanest officer by foreigners; the Irish race landless, homeless, living by sufferance upon the mercy of their masters."

James Connolly

Moment of clarity for party opposed to Irish nationalism.

"I have long been of opinion that the Socialist movement elsewhere was to a great extent hampered by the presence in its ranks of faddists and cranks, who were in the movement, not for the cause of Socialism, but because they thought they saw in it a means of ventilating their theories on such questions as sex, religion, vaccination, vegetarianism, etc., and I believed that such ideas had or ought to have no place in our programme or in our party."

- James Connolly, Wages and Other Things (1904)

⬆️⬆️⬆️ Accurate and still as relevant today as it was when he wrote it, if not more so.

Seems like some socialists aren't overly fond of the progressive social projects so important to their blue-haired university allies. Wonder if they'll get over the last hurdle and realise that caring for you own People's needs above those of other's is perfectly natural, or is immigration the hill they are willing to die on? It's not an either/or choice between criticising capitalism or immigration - the real problem is both.

This isn't a new issue by any means and is reminiscent of the debate American socialists were having in the early 1900s regarding the effects immigration was having on the material conditions of workers at the time and how this came into conflict with "internationalism". Funny things happen when reality meets theory.

Here's a few interesting quotes from the socialists of the era, contemporaries of James Connolly who was still in America at the time, as well as one of his own.

"Because your neighbor's house is burning, shall you set your own house in fire? No, say I. Defend your own house and then help your neighbor, that is the way."

- Victor Berger

"I believe in the international solidarity of the working class.... But I do not believe in international solidarity to the point of cutting my own throat."

- Ernest Untermann

"It is hard to believe that any Socialist really thinks that the immigration question is serious enough to justify a Socialist in doing the dirty work of the capitalist class"

- James Connolly

"It is hard to believe that any Socialist really thinks that the immigration question is serious enough to justify a Socialist in doing the dirty work of the capitalist class"

- James Connolly

#immigration #socialism