Re: AUT: Re: Colonisation

[Ilan Shalif <gshalif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people and George.

> George Pennefather:
>
> COLONISATION AND THE CELTIC TIGER
>
> The term Celtic Tiger is being bandied about ad nauseam. It is a term that forms part of bourgeois ideology and is thereby designed to serve a certain function: It
> promotes the delusion among the masses that Ireland is a thriving independent capitalist economy. In this way it conceals the bitter inter-imperialist struggle, taking
> place in Ireland, between American and European imperialism. It thereby conceals the fact that there is a struggle as to what imperialist power Ireland is to be a
> colony of. There has been virtually no attempt within the mass media to investigate what really lies behind the ideological term, Celtic Tiger.

The analysis seems clear and eye opener to those not in intimate
relations to the relevant facts.

However, the article do not point to the relevance of the described
processes for the workslaves of Ireland and for the class war there.
Ilan





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