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If you were right, Connolly would not have taken his place in the Dublin GPO on Easter 1916 alongside Padraig Pearse and the IRB - classic 'petty bourgeois nationalists' - but would have spent endless futile years trying to organize around pure class slogans, like the ILP did, who shared your politics. Why did he sign the Proclamation which doesn't make any reference to the working class and which asks somebody called 'God' to bless their arms? Why did Connolly place the national question at the centre of his politics? In his last statement, before the Brits shot him strapped to a chair, he says not one word about the working class or socialism, but enthuses about the blow that has been struck for Irish Freedom. "There are in Ireland two Socialist parties; there should only be one. The only real dividing issue, apart from personal elements, is the question of recognising Ireland as entitled to self-government" Connolly wrote against your ideological ancestor, William Walker. Connolly was on one side putting Irish Freedom at the centre of his programme for the working class and you're on the other. Try as you may, there's no way you will ever succeed in turning Connolly into a Loyalist. It's only because you have insulted Connolly and distorted his politics that I'm bothering to comment. --- On Tue, 10/5/10, S. Artesian <[email protected]> wrote ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
