"If you remove the English army tomorrow..."
Che Guevara ll
"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.
England would still rule you to your ruin, even while your lips offered hypocritical homage at the shrine of that Freedom whose cause you had betrayed.
Nationalism without Socialism – without a reorganisation of society on the basis of a broader and more developed form of that common property which underlay the social structure of Ancient Erin - is only national recreancy.
It would be tantamount to a public declaration that our oppressors had so far succeeded in inoculating us with their perverted conceptions of justice and morality that we had finally decided to accept those conceptions as our own, and no longer needed an alien army to force them upon us.
As a Socialist I am prepared to do all one man can do to achieve for our motherland her rightful heritage – independence; but if you ask me to abate one jot or tittle of the claims of social justice, in order to conciliate the privileged classes, then I must decline." - James Connolly
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Quiet you.
get out!
very nice
"If you remove the English army to-morrow"
We never were the best at identifying nationalities, were we?
Nah.
Really...think about it.
Cool quote.
National Socialism? Are you serious?
Oh dear. I was perusing the Irish news and saw this guy's paper.. You actually gave him citizenship? Just so you know he is a moron and blindly supports known cheaters..
An irony of a man. Believed the working class should be equal and be able to put the literal food on the table, but let his only family suffer as a result.
And capitalism is not english. The "west" is capitalist.
But a nice quote anywho
Didn't liked, many wrong information. England does not rule Ireland to ruin, in fact, Ireland is a lot better than eUK, food is cheaper, all citizens work not thinking in themselves, but in nation, and there it goes...
Um, Connoly wasn't talking about eIreland....