On 8/16/20 3:49 PM, Joseph Green wrote:
If the slaughter of the Irish people doesn't seem to you to be relevant, then nothing I say can possibly make a difference. But for the record, it doesn't help any progessive or revolutionary movement to simply say "rah, rah", and ignore the problems. And it strikes me as an obscenity to look at the Ethiopian empire, which was involved in repressing various subject nationalities, and dream of how wonderful it would be if Selassie turned out to be like Cromwell, given that Cromwell slaughtered an oppressed nationality. It's like wishing many happy returns of the day at a funeral. And unfortunately there were indeed many returns of the day this time, but not very happy ones, as the Empire ended up in a decades-long war against Eritrea.
I don't think you have theorized the bourgeois revolution. You might want to read Neil Davidson's book but this will at least give you an idea of what I think is the way to understand it dialectically rather than morally.
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