[Marxism] Re: Scotland

[Philip Ferguson <plf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Fidler writes:
> I share much of Philip Ferguson's skepticism about the justification for and 
> progressive
> potential of Scottish nationalism, as I have indicated in previous posts to 
> this list. On
> the other hand, it is heartening to see the progress of the SSP, which I think 
> is only
> partly explained by its support of an independent Scotland. The case for 
> Scottish
> oppression by England is not persuasive, and in fact few Scottish nationalists 
> (and no one
> in the SSP to my knowledge) even attempt to make it. Scottish disaffection with 
> the
> English union is a product of regional alienation, as Philip explains, and not 
> national
> oppression, although the putative existence of a Scottish nation gives it a 
> national
> expression.


Yeh, I agree fully re the SSP.  I think its emergence is a sign that
there is light at the end of the tunnel of political downturn.  The SSP
primarily owes its success to class questions and class struggle and its
growth is therefore encouraging.

Philip Ferguson


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