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I listened to this, although I was greatly irritated by the format where the interviewer kept interrupting with his idiot's version of "common sense". What was significant was the debate between Labour and Sinn Fein. This is obviously for both the parties the main game in town and where they think the most important struggle will be fought out. The United Left Alliance (ULA) seem to be regarded as largely irrelevant although perhaps well meaning. This is the dead weight of consciousness that has to be shifted. Whether the ULA can do so I don't know. What is clear to me is that Sinn Fein are trapped in a historic failure and that is the failure to unite the national struggle with the struggle against capitalism. In the North they assist in the management of the capitalist state and that marks a limit both to the struggles and to the thinking they will undertake. What precisely they offer the South as an alternative to the status quo is my no means clear to me. But of course I cannot base my critique on one radio program and a handful of newspaper articles. As for the Irish Labour Party they almost make the Australian Labor Party sound radical. They are so eager to be given a chance to manage the shop for their masters. The very thought of abolishing the master class has never entered their heads. My hope remains however that the Irish people despite their seeming quiescence will swing behind the ULA. That is the only vote which will cause the powerful to take fright. comradely Gary On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Dan DiMaggio <dan.dimag...@gmail.com>wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > http://links.org.au/node/2110 > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
