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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7WSM did not say a whole lot about 1916. Just pettit-bourgeois appeals to the limited Proclamation. Is the Proclamation the limit of their demands? WSM are all hot air and little substance. In reality they can be quite tame.
Well I can understand that. I think if the men and women of 1916 had known that 25 years and 50 years later the long fellow would be cruising around in a rolls royce taking salutes from a partitioned nation's army, to be followed 90 years later by the Ahern brothers, Mc Dowell, Harney, Haughey on the ex-taoiseach bench...
They might have called it all off.
¿don't ye agree?
nous sommes touts de racailles!
Just pre the troubles documentary - banned at the time - about irish society and what it was doing at the time with it's revolution - wonderful - speaks to the above more than anyone does now - maybe the antichrists could have some screenings?
Available in all good dvd shops - good on IFB and Se Mary Doyle for restoring
I saw the Rocky Road in the IFI and it was quite something, in particular for those of us old enough to remember the end of that period of clerical domination.
To Marxist - we are in the process of producing something very much more detailed on that period. But there is a use in even a brief highlighting of the contradictions between the limited program of the proclamation and the reality of the state that celebrates it 90 years on. We can do long winded but we don't always need to be long winded.
Au contraire. The leaders of 1916 would be amazed at just how prosperous independent Ireland has become. They would see the Celtic Tiger as a vindication of their efforts. If told in 1916 that, by the end of the century, Ireland would have the highest GDP per capita in Europe and would have net immigration of 50,000 to 100,000 annually, they would never have believed it. Its a total myth that all the 1916 leaders were socialists. A few were, but the rest were in what has always been the pro-capitalist mainstream in Ireland . You're confusing a national struggle with a socialist revolution. Most countries in Europe have had national struggles in which pro-capitalist and socialist polticians co-operated. To suggest, when the struggle ended and the population chose the pro-capitalist ones over the socialist ones, that this was some sort of betrayal of the national struggle is absurd. For example, the French national struggle against German occupation involved co-operation between the supporters of DeGaulle and the communists. When the war was over democratic France elected Gaullist governments in preference to communist governments. No one says that this was a betrayal of the ideals of the French Resistance merely because some of that Resistance were communists.
If we remove class divisions rid ourselves of the shackles of capitalism and equally distribute the wealth to all the people of Ireland -then we will not have to elect leaders - the job of leaders will already have been achieved?
Why are you so blinkered by neo-con facist capitalist propaganda? Open your eyes and join the workers struggle!
There can never be " equal opportunity for all ", as the Proclamation promised, so long as a class society exists.
Those who by their policies and control of power perpetuate an unequal, class society have no right to claim the legacy of 1916.
The lessons are clear: to achieve the ideals of 1916 reliance must be placed on the people of no property. All else is hypocricy. So leave it to those who are willing...